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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021, journalist Bob Woodward reports in a forthcoming book obtained by CNN.
Woodward also writes that Trump, while in office, sent Putin Covid-19 testing machines for his private use during the height of the pandemic.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/woodward-book-trump-putin-calls-00182840
It's Woodward. I'll bet my sweet bippy he has unimpeachable sources...
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More about the book.
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/blinken-biden-drop-out-bob-woodward
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Former President Donald Trump did send coronavirus testing devices to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic, the Kremlin confirmed Wednesday.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Bloomberg News in a written statement that “we also sent equipment at the beginning of the pandemic.”
The story was initially reported in “War,” a new book by veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, which reports on Trump and President Joe Biden’s relationships with foreign leaders.
The book claims that Trump secretly sent Abbott Covid-19 testing devices to Putin when the machines were in short supply. NBC News has not been able to independently verify this.
Peskov also denied Woodward's claim that Trump and Putin have spoken on the telephone several times since Trump left office. “No, that’s not true,” he told Russian outlet RBC..
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The Kremlin confirming one part of what Woodward said and denying another makes things more than a bit chaotic. It's possible Woodward has been set up and his sources aren't telling the truth. Or that Putin is taking advantage of the stories getting out.
This is where Putin excels and it's pretty much impossible to know for certain what happened, though I think Trump has been fawning over Putin for years and it seems totally plausible that he would try to get on his good side by sending him something that was in short supply.
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Gosh, can't wait to read the book...
