Trump has become an unwitting asset of Putin:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-u-s-intelligence-official-russia-has-turned-trump-into-unwitting-asset-172058187.html
"Not only through a series of cyberattacks that stand to hurt the Clinton campaign, but also, he said, by turning Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump into an “unwitting asset.”
The intelligence term, Nance explained, refers to “someone who thinks they’ve adopted a position but that position has been carved out for them, groomed for them.”
“Russia itself gains everything if Trump is elected president,” he told Golodryga Friday, pointing to some the Republican nominee’s foreign policy positions as evidence of Russia’s influence over the candidate. Trump has been critical of NATO, supported Russia’s intervention in Syria and showered praise on Russian President Vladimir
Putin.
“He cheers on the destruction of the European Union” Nance said of Trump, who has branded himself “Mr. Brexit.” Such a destruction would only help Russia, Nance said.
And, he continued, “Trump believes that Eastern Europe, from Poland east, is Russia’s backyard and they should be allowed to do whatever they choose, including the seizing of land in Crimea, possibly starting this insurgency in southern Ukraine, and having their eye on the Baltic states.”"