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Glenn SimpsonPage 241 person who the Russians would attempt to co-opt or compromise or manipulate. He was on the younger side, a little bit — considered to be a striver who was ambitious and not terribly savvy, and those are the kind of people that the Russians tend to compromise. That was the general sense we had. He was also, you know, from early on described as somewhat eccentric.

There was a — I remember quite clearly there was a bit of a — when we were talking to reporters about him because he was all over the news for this trip to Russia and we had done — there was a fair amount of open source on his consulting firm, his complaint that he'd lost money on Russian investments and he owned stock in Gazprom and he was really mad about the sanctions and he went over there in this hastily-arranged trip to speak to this school and that was all pretty unusual, but there's a lot of skepticism in the press about whether he could be linked between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign because he seemed like a zero, a lightweight.

I remember sort of not being able to kind of explain to people that's exactly why he would end up as someone who they would try to co-opt. Of 1-800-FOR-DEPO