In his first interview, Alex Vindman tells me that Trump is Putin's "useful idiot." "In the Army, we call this ‘free chicken,’ something you don’t have to work for—it just comes to you. This is what the Russians have in Trump: free chicken.”

In his first interview, Alex Vindman tells me that Trump is Putin's "useful idiot."

"In the Army, we call this ‘free chicken,’ something you don’t have to work for—it just comes to you. This is what the Russians have in Trump: free chicken.”

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— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 14, 2020