That’s what Michael Hayden, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Security Agency (NSA), told a capacity crowd at Utah Valley University Wednesday, in a speech titled “Hot spots at home and around the world.”
Russia’s covert influence campaign in the 2016 U.S. election is “an incredibly big deal,” Hayden said. “How can we prevent this from happening again?”
“I thought we were past that,” he said. “But it’s not the case.”
Trump is made in the mold of President Andrew Jackson — a nationalist, populist who is suspicious of the outside world.