text: "Echoing others in the military and intelligence communities, Hayden describes Trump as “polezni durak,” which he translates as meaning “the useful fool, some naïf, manipulated by Moscow, secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted and exploited.” Hayden described this as a “pretty harsh term.” But, he wrote, it’s the most benign interpretation he could come up with for what is occurring between Trump and Putin."  Michael Hayden, former CIA Director under Bush