Former US President Donald Trump said he had confidence in Russian President Vladimir Putin when he shared an article about former FBI officer Charles McGonigal. This was in Trump’s statement on a social media site owned by Truth Social, according to what was reported. NewsweeK, where the former US president referred to comments he made after meeting Putin in Helsinki in 2018, when he said he “sees no reason” for Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, despite what the FBI said. Trump said he “trusts Putin more than (people of weak resolve) who work in US intelligence,” sharing an article by Charles McGonigal, a former FBI official who is one of the leading figures in the bureau’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s relationship with Russia. ahead of the 2016 elections.
McGonigal was recently arrested on suspicion of a number of offenses, including allegedly “collaborating with Russian oligarchs under sanctions.”
And Trump continued in a statement: “I remember being asked in Helsinki by a basically third-rate reporter who I trust more, Russian President Putin or the weak-minded people in our intelligence. people like James Comey, McCabe (whose wife was assisted by Hillary Clinton while she was under investigation!) and Brennan and Peter Strzok (whose wife works for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission).”
Trump said, “Now add these McGonigals and other idiots to the list. Who would you choose, Putin or these losers?”
