The Late Show
In “The Late Show” this Tuesday, October 8, Kamala Harris returned to the revelations by journalist Bob Woodward, according to which Trump offered Covid tests to Putin.
UNITED STATES – Revelations that become an electoral argument. One month before the American presidential election, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris returned, with great anger, to the relations between her future opponent and former president Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin, in the show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, this Tuesday, October 8.
In his new book entitled Ofr, American journalist Bob Woodward reveals that Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 screening tests to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he was in the White House and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.
“Americans were dying”
A case that put Kamala Harris beside herself while the United States lacked health materials during Covid-19. Faced with Stephen Colbert, she castigated: “I ask everyone watching to remember this time. Do you remember how many people were not tested? Americans were dying. »
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A little earlier, Joe Biden had already expressed himself with the same vehemence, during an event in Pennsylvania, denouncing the management “shameful” of the pandemic by Donald Trump. “More than a million people died but guess what? (…) He called his friend Putin, this is not a joke, and made sure that he had tests” while the United States lacked it.
If she admitted not having yet read Bob Woodward’s book, Kamala Harris also denounced the Republican’s proximity to Vladimir Putin: “Donald Trump openly admires dictators and authoritarians. He said he wanted to be a dictator from day one, if he was elected president again. He’s getting screwed by these guys. He admires so-called strong men and he gets fooled because they flatter him or do him favors. »
“Think about what that means, besides him sending love letters to Kim Jong-un…”continued the vice-president. “What about the American people? He is the one who should be [son] best friend. »
A relationship that lasts in the middle of the war in Ukraine
According to an anonymous advisor, Donald Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin in secret up to seven times since he left the White House in 2021. In early 2024, he asked an aide to leave his office in Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, to have a telephone conversation with the Russian president.
This ongoing Trump-Putin relationship is all the more problematic since kyiv is at war with the Kremlin, Kamala Harris implied: “We must stand with our allies. We must support our friend Ukraine, where Russia is trying to change the borders by force,” she insisted.
For its part, Trump’s team completely denied the revelations of Bob Woodward, known in particular for having helped to explode the ” Watergate » and for having extensively documented the Trump presidency, in the works Fear et Rage notably. “None of these fabricated stories by Bob Woodward are true, this is the work of a truly insane and unbalanced man”reacted in a statement Steven Cheung, one of the spokespersons for the Republican presidential candidate, affirming that the book “ could be used as toilet paper ».
The book is the fourth by White House columnist Bob Woodward since Trump’s surprise victory in 2016. He focuses mainly on the two wars that focus Joe Biden’s attention: that of Russia in Ukraine and that of Israel against Hamas.
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