What if the Russians had installed an operative asset in the Oval Office without firing a single shot, executing the most devastating effective attack on American sovereignty in plain sight on the American people in modern history!
In the New York Times op-ed written three months before the 2016 election, the former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Morell answered the question in the affirmative, writing, “in the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.†In January 2017, shortly before Donald Trump’s inauguration, Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and the national Security Agency, called Mr. Trump “a clear and present danger†to America’s national security and “a useful idiot,†a term often attributed to Vladimir Lenin that refers to naïve Westerners who were especially susceptible to manipulation for propaganda and other purposes.
In December 2017, the former national intelligence director James Clapper asserted that Trump was, in effect, an intelligence “asset†serving Russian president Vladimir Putin.
And in 2019, the former CIA director John Brennan declared Trump to be “wholly in the pocket of Putin†and went further on Meet the Press, where he added that he had called Trump’s behavior “treasonous, which is to betray one’s trust and aid and abet the enemy, and I stand very much by that claim.†Craig Unger – “American Kompromatâ€
