Washington. Star reporter Bob Woodward reveals Donald Trump’s relationship with Vladimir Putin. How often the two were in contact was surprising.
A few weeks before the US election, new questions arise about the internal relationship between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. In his book “War,” which will be published next week, journalist Bob Woodward, who has worked as an investigative investigator for the Washington Post for half a century, reports that Trump Kremlin ruler In 2020, when there was a lack of reliable examination methods in the early phase of the corona pandemic, various tests for personal use were sent “undercover”, so to speak.
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Von Putin It was known that he was terrified of infection at the time. According to Woodward, citing sources close to Trump, Putin asked Trump to keep the aid delivery under wraps. “I don’t want you to tell anyone, because people will be angry with you, not with me,” Putin reportedly told the then US president.
Trump is said to have spoken to Putin seven times – most recently in early 2024
Since his inglorious departure from office (storming of the Capitol/January 2021). Trump communicated with Putin seven times. Most recently at the beginning of this year from his private residence at Mar-a-Lago, where, according to Woodward, Trump asked an employee to leave the room so that he could speak on the phone with the Russian president without being disturbed. Woodward does not report the content of the conversations.
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The fact that Private Trump, currently a presidential candidate, is in contact with the leader of a country that attacked an American ally, Ukraine, leads Bob Woodward to conclude that Trump is worse than Richard M. Nixon, whose Presidency was wiped out by the Watergate scandal, which Woodward played a key role in uncovering.
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“Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and displays exactly the same character as a presidential candidate in 2024,” Woodward writes in his book. A Trump spokesman said: “None of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true.” The book “belongs either in the fiction section of a discount bookstore or should be used as toilet paper.”
