Trump denounces Morell as ‘total Clinton flunky’
US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has censured a former CIA Acting Director Michael Morell Sunday evening, calling him a “total Clinton flunky.”
“Michael Morell, the lightweight former Acting Director of C.I.A., and a man who has made serious bad calls, is a total Clinton flunky!” Trump tweeted on Monday morning.
In an article published by the New York Times last week, Morell endorsed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton for president and called Trump unqualified and a threat to America’s national security, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of recruiting the Republican nominee as an “unwitting agent” of Moscow.
Morell, who worked under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, said on Friday he had voted for both Republicans and Democrats in the past, but decided to end his silence over his political preferences because he considered Trump as a threat to national security.
And on Sunday, Morell described Putin as a “very talented” leader, and said he has "manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump."
"He played this perfectly, right. He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented," he said.
Morell said Putin praised Trump. “That led Donald Trump to then compliment Vladimir Putin and to defend Vladimir Putin's actions in a number of places around the world.”
"And Donald Trump didn't even understand, right, that Putin was playing him,” he stated.
A new poll shows that Clinton has taken a 9-percentage point lead over Trump in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential race.
The poll, released on Sunday evening, shows the former secretary of state has 46 percent of the votes as compared to the New York billionaire having only a 37-percent support.
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