Vladimir Putin manipulated Donald Trump’s ‘ego and insecurities’, book says
by Richard Luscombe in Miami from US news | The Guardian on (#6Q4Q8)
Former US national security adviser HR McMaster claims Russian president had a hold over Trump in new memoir
Vladimir Putin exploited Donald Trump's ego and insecurities" to exert an almost mesmeric hold over the former US president, who refused to entertain any negative evaluation of the autocratic Russian leader from his own staff, and ultimately fired his national security adviser, HR McMaster, over it.
The bold assessment of Trump's fealty to Putin comes in McMaster's book At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, published by HarperCollins and arriving on 27 August. The Guardian obtained a copy.
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