John Brennan on Trump Gesturing to Putin at Meeting: Putin a ‘Master Puppeteer’ of Trump

‘I just feel as though Mr. Trump has fallen prey to what Mr. Putin is trying to do, undermining the national security of this country’

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BRENNAN: “The fact that Mr. Trump with all the baggage that he has on his relationship with the Russians and Mr. Putin and Russian interference, and the way that he has had this fawning attitude towards Mr. Putin and he has these very, you know, one-on-one conversations with him that he keeps from others, it really just continues to fuel the suspicions and the concerns about what is going on. And that’s why the — I think the intelligence community agencies have a right to try to understand better, again, how the Russians may be taking advantage of somebody like Mr. Trump, who I don’t believe is an asset of Russia, you know, by the formal term, but I do believe that he is being manipulated and exploited, and that Putin, who is a trained KGB intelligence officer, is a master puppeteer in many respects. And I just feel as though Mr. Trump is -- has fallen prey to what Mr. Putin is trying to do, undermining the national security of this country.”

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