The former CIA Director Michael Morell slammed Trump on “This Week,” saying that Putin had outsmarted plenty of people smarter than Trump, and that he was an “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation” in Putin’s eyes.
Dang. Watch below:
Fmr. CIA Director Mike Morell: “I have no doubt” Putin sees Trump as “unwitting agent of the Russian Federation” https://t.co/LYxpygPMch
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 7, 2016
Here’s more from Morell on Trump and Hillary:
“Donald J. Trump is not only unqualified for the job, but he may well pose a threat to our national security,” Morell wrote in the New York Times, noting that Trump has “no experience on national security.”
“Even more important, the character traits he has exhibited during the primary season suggest he would be a poor, even dangerous, commander in chief,” he said, ticking off the billionaire’s “obvious need for self-aggrandizement, his overreaction to perceived slights, and his tendency to make decisions based on intuition,” among other complaints.
Morell even suggested that Trump’s propulsion onto the national political stage “is already damaging our national security” and pointed to Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s comments about Trump.
“Mr. Putin played upon Mr. Trump’s vulnerabilities by complimenting him,” the ex-CIA director said of the primary race, when the Russian president commended Trump as “bright and talented.”
“He responded,” Morell said, “just as Mr. Putin had calculated.”
The relationship between Putin and Trump is a really odd one as Trump has praised him up and down and even defended his aggressive actions in invading the Ukraine, assassinating journalists, and even shooting down planes. There’s some real question as to whether he’s even an “unwitting” agent, or a purposeful one, even if armed with only a half wit.