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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Donald Trump a de facto Russian asset, FBI official he fired suggests

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Donald Trump speaks in the spin room following his debate with Kamala Harris in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Photograph: Bonnie Cash/UPI/REX/Shutterstock

Donald Trump can be seen as a Russian asset, though not in the traditional sense of an active agent or a recruited resource, an ex-FBI deputy director who worked under the former US president said.

Asked on a podcast if he thought it possible Trump was a Russian asset, Andrew McCabe, who Trump fired as FBI deputy director in 2018, said: “I do, I do.”

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