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AmericanMan1958

(520 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 12:06 AM Nov 2016

Former 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 CNN’s 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 Morell’s description, opting instead to launch into a description of his own.

“There’s a phrase in Russian espionage-lore about ‘useful idiots’: people who don’t know what they’re 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 OP
LOL @ HAYDEN....when the evil Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark calls Trump a USEFUL IDIOT, MADem Nov 2016 #1
drumpf is an idiot all right.. who's going down. Cha Nov 2016 #2
This message was self-deleted by its author Goblor Nov 2016 #3
That sounds like a great hashtag Goblor Nov 2016 #4
I'm down with #UselessIdiot Coyotl Nov 2016 #7
I'll say it if he won't world wide wally Nov 2016 #5
figured it would be vlad the inhaler Tom Rivers Nov 2016 #6
I thought the name would be Comrade. sinkingfeeling Nov 2016 #9
FBI will not persue UCmeNdc Nov 2016 #10
I call him TTPM maxrandb Nov 2016 #11

MADem

(135,425 posts)
1. LOL @ HAYDEN....when the evil Nazi from Raiders of the Lost Ark calls Trump a USEFUL IDIOT,
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 12:10 AM
Nov 2016

we'd do well to BELIEVE him!!!!




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Coyotl

(15,262 posts)
7. I'm down with #UselessIdiot
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 01:46 AM
Nov 2016

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.

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