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If she said those things, it sounds like someone bitter over being fired for not doing a good job or leaking information. I don’t know who this person is, so I can only speculate on her motivation, but from her words, as reported, it sounds very bitter and retaliatory.

Observing his presidency, I certainly saw no hint that he was “afraid of Putin”, and as we know, Putin didn’t invade his neighbor while Trump was in office.