According to the book, during his presidency of the United States, Trump sent Covid-19 tests to the Russian president Vladimir Putin Secretly in 2020, while Russia was suffering from a shortage in this field.
Trump campaign spokesman Stephen Chung told Agence France-Presse: “None of these narratives invented by Bob Woodward are true. They are the invention of a crazy man and are not balanced.”
Woodward is considered one of the most prominent journalists familiar with the secrets The White HouseHis name came to prominence after he and his colleague in the American Washington Post, Carl Bernstein, revealed the “Watergate” scandal that led to the president’s resignation. Richard Nixon 1974.
In the book, excerpts of which were circulated in American media before its scheduled release on October 15, Woodward talks about Trump maintaining a personal relationship with Putin despite the latter’s invasion of Ukraine, and at a time when the former Republican president is trying to return to the White House when he runs in the presidential elections against… Democracy Kamala Harris On November 5th.
According to the excerpts, Trump sent Putin a package of Covid tests in 2020 at the height of the pandemic.
The Russian President sought to keep the matter secret to avoid any political repercussions.
According to Woodward, Putin told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anyone because people will be angry with you, not me.”
Woodward quoted an unnamed Trump aide as saying that the former president had communicated with Putin seven times since the end of his presidential term at the beginning of 2021, even though the United States was run by a Democratic president. Joe BidenIt is the most prominent supporter of Ukraine politically and militarily in the face of the Russian invasion.
The Washington Post reported in its report on the book that Trump asked one of his aides in early 2024 to leave his office at the Malarago resort he owns in Florida, because he wanted to have a private conversation with the Russian president.
The book briefly touches on Harris’ role as Biden’s deputy, “hardly playing an influential role in determining foreign policy,” according to the Washington Post.
In response to a question about the book, she said: Harris American journalist Howard Stern said that Trump was subjected to manipulation during a health disaster that witnessed “the death of hundreds of Americans every day.”
She continued, “Everyone was seeking to obtain the test kit, and Trump was sending it to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use.”
The journalist concluded in his new book that Trump communicated with… Putin At a time when he is waging a war against a country allied with the United States, this makes him even more unfit for the presidency than Nixon was.
“Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president I have ever seen,” Woodward wrote American history“He shows the same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.”
