People like Trump and Putin lacking leadership for members of the local community (9)
I believe the answer is:
residents
'people' is the definition.
(resident is a kind of person)
'local community' is the wordplay.
'local' becomes 'resident' (a resident of a particular area).
'community' becomes 's' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'resident'+'s'='RESIDENTS'
'like trump and putin lacking leadership for members of the' is the link.
I am not very happy about this link. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for residents that I've seen before include "folk living down the road?" , "Lodgers" , "doctors" .)