Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 test kits when he was president to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin despite shortages in the United States during the pandemic, and spoke with him several times after leaving office, according to a book by the well-known journalist Bob Woodward.
In the book “War”, of which The Washington Post published several fragments this Tuesday, Woodward, one of the journalists who uncovered Watergate, gives details about Trump.
He assures that the Republican candidate for the White House remained in contact with Putin, even during his campaign for another presidential term, despite Russia waging a war in Ukraine, a US ally.
In 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump sent a batch of testing kits to Putin, who asked him to keep it secret.
According to Woodward, Putin told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anyone because people will be mad at you, not me.”
Woodward also cites an anonymous Trump adviser who claims the former president spoke with Putin up to seven times since leaving the White House in 2021.
In early 2024, Trump ordered this aide to leave his office at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, so he could speak on the phone with Putin, he maintains.
The book will go on sale on October 15, just three weeks before a closely contested US election between Trump and Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and he is demonstrating the same character as a presidential candidate in 2024,” Woodward writes.
Trump’s campaign team called the book “garbage” and “made-up stories.” They are “the work of a truly demented and deranged man,” communications director Steven Cheung told AFP.
The book tells some of the mistakes of Democratic President Joe Biden and his fight to avoid an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East.
It includes Biden’s exasperation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as his efforts to get Israel and Hamas to reach a ceasefire are unsuccessful.
According to CNN, which has obtained a copy of the book, Woodward repeatedly quotes Biden, who called Putin the “epitome of evil,” called Netanyahu a “liar” and said he “should never have chosen” Merrick Garland as prosecutor. General of the United States.
According to the book, during a phone call in April, Biden asked Netanyahu: “What is your strategy?” “We have to enter Rafah,” Netanyahu responded, referring to a city in the southern Gaza Strip. “Bibi, you have no strategy,” Biden replied, according to the journalist.
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