Swearing Biden and Trump’s gift to Putin: Woodward’s book full of revelations

Donald Trump has been in close contact with Russian President Putin since his presidency, and Joe Biden has repeatedly called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu a liar. That’s in the new book War by journalist Bob Woodward. These are two of a series of publications that the American press eagerly picks up on War. It will hit the market next week.

Veteran Woodward, famous for the Watergate scandal in the 1970s, has been writing about those in power in the White House for more than half a century. This time he takes a behind-the-scenes look at the Biden presidency. In addition, Woodward also spoke with former President Trump’s confidants. This provides sensitive information, a month before the presidential elections in which Republican Trump competes against Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Into the previews The New York Times, The Washington Post in CNN concern about domestic and foreign political issues. For example, Woodward describes how Biden held on to the prospect of a second term until the last minute. “Can you see yourself doing this for another four years?

Woodward also explains how the US government is getting involved in difficult issues such as the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. “They blew it in 2014. Barack never took Putin seriously,” Biden is said to have complained about President Obama. In 2014, Russia annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea.

Additionally, in September 2022, the Biden team feared that Russia would deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. This chance was estimated at 50 percent.

Privately, Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu one son of a bitch in bad boy. Despite the great lack of confidence in the Israeli leader, Biden has hardly changed policy towards his friend, Woodward concludes. Netanyahu is lying and it only concerns political survival: this is how Biden spoke behind the scenes about the Israeli prime minister, Woodward writes in his book.

Woodward also claims that Trump secretly sent corona testing equipment to Russian President Putin for his private use during his presidency. That is said to have happened at the beginning of the pandemic in 2020. “I don’t want you to tell anyone about this, because people will be angry with you and not with me,” said the director of the Russia.

The journalist also writes that Trump, as vice president, called Putin several times. Woodward appears to be basing this claim on a conversation with a Trump associate. It is not clear what the two would have discussed. A Trump spokesman disputed the claim, but acknowledged that Trump and Putin “know how to call each other.”

Today, the Trump campaign team is dismissing the information about Putin as complete nonsense. A spokesperson calls Woodward, who is 81 years old, sad and says that everything is made up. He says Woodward has not spoken to Trump. He did that for previous books.

The journalist makes no secret that he thinks Trump is not fit to be president. In War Woodward concludes that, although the Biden administration has made mistakes, according to the journalist, they have followed “stable and purposeful” policies. For the new book, the journalist drew on hundreds of hours of interviews with people who were present “at certain moments”.