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CIA Director: Donald Trump's Nazi Germany Comments Are 'Repugnant'

“Tell the families of those 117 CIA officers who are forever memorialised on our wall of honor that their loved ones who gave their lives were akin to Nazis."

Outgoing CIA Director John Brennan held nothing back in his disdain for some of President-elect Donald Trump's vitriolic Twitter rants.

In an interview with The Wall Street Journal that was published Monday, Brennan referred specifically to Trump tweeting last week about an unverified intelligence dossier that accused him, among other things, of having long-standing ties with Russia:

Trump sharpened his attack on Sunday, directly slamming Brennan for being "the leaker of Fake News" after the CIA director spoke about Trump's impulsive character during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday."