Idiot Quote by David Remnick

Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.

— Steve Schmidt

President Trump is, some ways, the personification of a new Bolshevism of the Right, where the ends justify the means and acceptable tactics include…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

Putin is no different than any other powerful man, like a Senator, or a President.

— Donald Trump

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

— John Podesta

President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin.

— Alexander Vindman

Putin is very - not the smartest guy in the world.

— Hannah Teter

Donald Trump, again and again, has praised Vladimir Putin and it's clear that he has business dealings with Russian oligarchs who are very connected…

— Tim Kaine

Vladimir Putin is a person from a different generation.

— Ksenia Sobchak

Vladimir Putin is a dictator.

— Tim Kaine

Trump is the white evangelicals' version of V.I. Lenin's 'useful idiot,' a character who is helping achieve their apocalyptic fever dreams, but who will…

— Neil Macdonald

What Trump is not smart enough to even grasp is that the kind of popularity that Putin has can only be achieved in the…

— Masha Gessen

Vladimir Putin is a dictator. He's not a leader. Anybody who thinks otherwise doesn't know Russian history and they don't know Vladimir Putin.

— Tim Kaine