Former Director of National Intelligence Believed ‘Putin Had Something on Trump’: Woodward Book

Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats has held a “secret belief” Russian President Vladimir Putin had something on President Trump, journalist Bob Woodward writes in his jaw-dropping new book. Coats “continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof, that Putin had something on Trump,” Woodword wrote in Rage, according to CNN. “How else to explain the president’s behavior? Coats could see no other explanation.” “Coats saw how extraordinary it was for the president’s top intelligence official to harbor such deep suspicions about the president’s relationship with Putin. But he could not shake them,” Woodward added.