For a few hours on March 21, America’s worst fears about Donald Trump seemed to be confirmed: Someone who ought to know implied that the president was being blackmailed by Russia. Former CIA director John Brennan, who was in his post right up until Trump’s inauguration, told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel that he thinks Trump is afraid of Russian president Vladimir Putin. “The fact that he has had this fawning attitude towards Mr. Putin and has not said anything negative about him, it continues to say something to me that he has something to fear and something serious to fear,” Brennan said.
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Then-U.S. Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan testifies before the Senate (Select) Intelligence Committee in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill Jan. 10, 2017 in Washington, DC.
