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Related: About this forumFormer CIA director says the Russians have a name for Trump:
Former CIA director Michael Hayden Wednesday implied Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is acting as a useful idiot in his refusal to denounce the actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked by CNNs Jake tapper about an op-ed written by former CIA deputy director Mike Morell that referred to Trump as an unwitting agent of Putin, Hayden declined to use Morells description, opting instead to launch into a description of his own.
Theres a phrase in Russian espionage-lore about useful idiots: people who dont know what theyre doing but then do things that seem to fit what the Russians would like them to do. Hayden said.
Are you calling Donald Trump a useful idiot, Tapper asked.
I did not, I did not, Hayden said. I simply referred to what the Russians have a reference to.
Asked by CNNs Jake tapper about an op-ed written by former CIA deputy director Mike Morell that referred to Trump as an unwitting agent of Putin, Hayden declined to use Morells description, opting instead to launch into a description of his own.
Theres a phrase in Russian espionage-lore about useful idiots: people who dont know what theyre doing but then do things that seem to fit what the Russians would like them to do. Hayden said.
Are you calling Donald Trump a useful idiot, Tapper asked.
I did not, I did not, Hayden said. I simply referred to what the Russians have a reference to.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/former-cia-director-says-the-russians-have-a-name-for-trump-useful-idiot/
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Former CIA director says the Russians have a name for Trump: (Original Post)
AmericanMan1958
Nov 2016
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MADem
(135,425 posts)1. LOL @ HAYDEN....when the evil Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark calls Trump a USEFUL IDIOT,
we'd do well to BELIEVE him!!!!
Cha
(297,240 posts)2. drumpf is an idiot all right.. who's going down.
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Goblor
(163 posts)4. That sounds like a great hashtag
#usefulidiot
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)7. I'm down with #UselessIdiot
So Russia has a troll army punking America, and thus they find Trump useful. We don't!
This tells us plenty about Trump. Right off, he needs deporting to where he's useful.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)5. I'll say it if he won't
Trump is an idiot.
Not so sure about the "useful" part
Tom Rivers
(459 posts)6. figured it would be vlad the inhaler
*SNIFF*
sinkingfeeling
(51,457 posts)9. I thought the name would be Comrade.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)10. FBI will not persue
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)11. I call him TTPM
Tic-Tac Pu$$y Monster