Ex-Director of the US National Intelligence James Clapper said that the president of the country-aggressor of Russia, Vladimir Putin, behaves with US President Donald Trump, as with an agent of Russian intelligence. This is reported by the Voice of America.

It is noted that an ardent critic of the American president thus commented on his speech with the introduction of the new US National Security Strategy.

"I think that over the last weekend we saw that Putin is an excellent scout who knows how to develop a source. He knows how to lead an agent. And that's exactly what he does with the US president, "Klapper said.

He also said that it is necessary to remember who Putin is.

"He is a KGB agent. So they work. They recruit agents, "Clapper said, noting later that he expressed" figuratively ".

Yesterday, on December 18, US President Donald Trump presented the country's national security strategy, where Russia's nuclear weapons and the demolition of the democratic foundations are called the most significant threats, and China is the main competitor that steals US intellectual property.