"former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and the Editorial Board of The New York Times applied the term to President-elect Donald Trump. Michael Morell, former acting CIA director, wrote: 'In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.' Michael Hayden [US National Security Agency & CIA] described Trump as a 'useful fool ... secretly held in contempt, but whose blind support is happily accepted & exploited.'"