Ex-CIA Director: 'No Doubt' Putin Views Trump as 'Unwitting Agent'
I'd say "useful idiot" is a more apt description.
Former Central Intelligence Agency Acting Director Michael Morell on Sunday doubled down on the connection he made between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Morell told ABC's "This Week" that he had "no doubt" Putin viewed Trump as an "unwitting agent" of Russia, and noted that as a trained KGB intelligence operative, Putin had manipulated people "much smarter than Donald Trump."
"He played this perfectly, right? He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented. He complimented him. That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world. And Donald Trump didn't even understand, right, that Putin was playing him," Morell said. "So in Putin's mind, I have no doubt that Putin thinks he's an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation, although Putin would never say that."
Morell, who worked under both Democratic and Republican administrations during his career with the CIA, first denounced Trump in an op-ed published in the New York Times. He endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the process.
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