THE Donald Trump secretly sent detection tests for Covid-19 to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he was in the White House, in the midst of the pandemic and while there was a shortage in the US, reveals a new book of his Bob Woodwarda legend of American journalism.
Woodward, who has been covering the White House for half a century for the Washington Post, had uncovered the Watergate scandal with Carl Bernstein that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974. In his new book, titled ” War” and will be released on October 15, also writes that Trump maintained a personal relationship with Putin, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine and while he aspired to return to Washington.
According to US media with access to the book, Vladimir Putin accepted the tests for the detection of the coronavirus and swore to Donald Trump not to say anything: “I want you not to tell anyone, people will be angry with you, not with me.” , she reportedly told him at the time.
An adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity claimed that Donald Trump secretly spoke with Putin up to seven times after he left the White House in 2021. In early 2024 he asked an aide out of his office at the residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, to speak by phone with the Russian president.
“None of these stories made up by Bob Woodward are true, they are the work of a truly deranged and unbalanced man,” countered Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesman, adding that the book “could be used instead of toilet paper.”
Kamala Harris, Trump’s opponent in the November 5 presidential election, expressed her outrage. “Everybody in America was racing to get the tests (…) and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his own personal use? It’s just the latest example of who Trump is,” the current US vice president commented.
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