Jim Jordan Report Shows What 'Deeply Concerned' Ex-CIA Official About Trump

A report from Republican Representative Jim Jordan has revealed transcripts of a former acting CIA Director saying he was "deeply concerned" by former President Donald Trump.

Late last month, Jordan, who serves as the chairman of the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee, released a report relating to President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, with the lawmaker saying that "the highest levels of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), up to and including then-CIA Director Gina Haspel, were made aware of the 'Public Statement on the Hunter Biden Emails' by 51 former intelligence officials prior to its approval and publication."

The report includes a transcript of an interview the committee had with former CIA deputy director Michael Morell, who also served as acting director during former President Barack Obama's administration, including portions where he spoke about Trump.

"I'm a pretty conservative guy when it comes to national security. But I have to tell you that, you know, spending 33 years at CIA and watching literally hundreds of world leaders during that time, President Trump's personality traits deeply concerned me, what I believed to be deep narcissism, what I believed to be deep paranoia, what I believe to be a type of sadism where you—not sexually, of course, but a type of sadism where you, you know, are happy when your opponents have been injured in some way—I'm talking politically—that those were all traits that I saw in foreign leaders who did significant damage to their country and significant damage to the democracies of their country," Morell said, according to the released transcripts.

"And, you know, my fear, in my view, was borne out by his failure to act on January 6, 2021. So, that's what I meant when I wrote that. That's what I was thinking," Morell added in the April 2023 testimony.

The comments from Morell were made just more than a year before Trump received a win from the U.S. Supreme Court on his arguments of presidential immunity for acts while serving as president, particularly relating to his federal indictment for alleged election interference and the January 6 riots at the Capitol.

Newsweek has reached out to to Morell for comment through Beacon Global Strategies, where he is listed as senior counselor.

In a 6-3 decision, the Court ruled on Monday that former presidents have absolute immunity for official acts, but no immunity at all for private acts. The Court sent the case, which was led by Department of Justice (DOJ) special counsel Jack Smith and focused on Trump's alleged role surrounding the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and Trump's alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election results that saw President Joe Biden as the winner, back to a lower court in Washington, D.C., to figure out how to determine what constitutes an official act.

Trump remains the presumptive Republican nominee for president in the 2024 race.

Newsweek reached out to Trump's spokesperson via email for comment.