[The Hill] A former CIA expert on Russia said Wednesday that he feels "sick" after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that he thinks "something is going on behind the scenes."Steven Hall, the former head of Russian operations at the CIA in Moscow, made the comments in a tweet, in which he also shared an article from The Atlantic calling Trump’s relationship with Putin "The Crisis Facing America."
"From a counterintelligence perspective, something is going on behind the scenes," Hall tweeted. "Before Helsinki I was less sure; post Helsinki, I feel sick."
Hall, who is also a CNN analyst, expressed his concerns about the Trump-Putin summit beforehand.
Trump faced immediate backlash after his press conference with Putin from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, world leaders, the media and other prominent political figures.
During the conference, he refused to confront Putin over Russian interference in the 2016 election, and criticized the special counsel investigation. He also said that he didn’t see any reason why it "would have been" Russia who interfered in the election, comments that he later walked back, claiming he meant to say "wouldn’t."
