After leaving office, Donald Trump apparently called the Russian president seven times and sent him coronavirus tests. A new book reveals Trump’s contact with Putin.
New findings by American journalist Bob Woodward about Donald Trump’s contacts in Moscow: As American president, despite the shortages at home, the Republican secretly sent corona tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin and has had several conversations with them since his departure. the Kremlin boss.
This is stated in Woodward’s new book, War, excerpts of which were published by The Washington Post on Tuesday.
Trump continues to maintain personal contacts with Putin, despite the war in Ukraine that has been going on for two and a half years and despite his candidacy for the presidential elections on November 5. When the corona pandemic raged in 2020, Trump sent a shipment of corona tests to the Russian president.
Putin accepted, but advised Trump to keep the delivery secret: “I don’t want you to tell anyone, because then people will be angry with you, not with me,” Putin told Trump, according to the book.
Woodward quotes an unnamed Trump aide as saying he has spoken to Putin up to seven times since his term ended in 2021. In early 2024, Trump asked an employee at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida to leave his office so he could have a private phone conversation with Putin.
‘War’ will be released in the US on October 15, three weeks before the November 5 election, which will pit former President Trump for the Republican Party and Vice President Kamala Harris for the Democratic Party.
The Watergate scandal made Woodward famous
Woodward has been reporting on various American presidents for fifty years. In the 1970s, he and his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein became world famous for their investigation into the Watergate wiretapping scandal surrounding President Richard Nixon. Since then, he has repeatedly published investigative books on American presidents, including several on Trump.
Author sharply criticizes Trump
Woodward comes to the conclusion that the right-wing populist is less suitable for the presidency than Nixon was at the time, given his contacts with an authoritarian Russian leader who is waging war against American ally Ukraine. “Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and exhibits the same character as the 2024 presidential candidate,” Woodward wrote.
Trump team about book: ‘nonsense’
The Trump team described the book as “garbage” and called it “fictional stories.” Woodward is a “crazy and deranged man,” Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said.
Source: Krone
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