Ex-FBI official warns Trump could be a Russian asset: ‘His approach with Putin raises significant questions’

A former top FBI official has warned that Donald Trump could be a Russian asset if he wins the 2024 election, saying the Republican presidential candidate’s approach to Vladimir Putin raises “some very serious questions.”

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, who was fired by Trump in 2018, was asked on a podcast whether “there is a possibility Trump is a Russian asset.”

He responded: “I do.”

“I don’t know I would characterize it as [an] active recruited knowing asset in the way people in the intelligence community think of that term,” he told the OneDecision podcast.

“But I do think that Donald Trump has given us many reasons to question his approach to the Russia problem in the US.”

McCabe also said the Republican presidential nominee has “a fawning admiration” for Russian dictator Putin in a way “no other president has.”

In the past, Trump has wildly claimed Putin “would never have gone into Ukraine” if he were president and has touted his “very good relationship” with him several times.

“Putin would’ve never gotten into Ukraine, but that’s just on my relationship with him,” he said last year.

“My personality over his. I was the apple of his eye and I would say, ‘Don’t ever do it.’ It was tough stuff there but he would have never done it.”

McCabe told the podcast that these kinds of comments “all raise significant questions” about the former president when it comes to his stance on Russia.

“His approach to interacting with Vladimir Putin, be it phone calls, face to face meetings, things that he has said in public about Putin all raise significant questions about why he has this attitude and acceptance of Putin and off-handed comments of support to Putin,” he told OneDecision.

McCabe also questioned Trump’s