The legendary American journalist Bob Woodward reports, in a book to be published on October 15, the close relationship between the Republican candidate for the White House and the Russian president.
He reveals that Donald Trump sent Covid-19 detection tests to the Kremlin “for the personal use” of the Russian head of state.
A spokesperson for the former American president denounces “fabricated stories” for a work that could “serve as toilet paper”.
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The information had until then been well guarded. Book reveals Donald Trump sent “and secret” Covid-19 screening tests to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “for personal use” at the peak of the pandemic in 2020 when the United States was running out of it. In War (“Guerre”) to be published on October 15, the legend of American journalism. Bob Woodward writes that it was the Russian president who asked the tenant of the White House to remain discreet. “Please don’t tell anyone you sent them to me.”he allegedly told her according to comments reported by CNN (new window).
“I don’t care”would have responded Donald Trump, whose relationship with Vladimir Putin would have continued after the end of his mandate. According to an adviser who requested anonymity, the Republican presidential candidate has spoken with the Russian president up to seven times since leaving the White House three years ago. In early 2024, he allegedly asked a colleague to leave his office at the Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida to have a telephone conversation with him.
We couldn’t find these tests anywhere and this man who is president of the United States is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?
Kamala Harris
These revelations obviously made her competitor Kamala Harris react. “At the peak of the pandemic, people were dying by the hundreds. These tests couldn’t be found anywhere and this man who is president of the United States is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?”she said on the Howard Stern Show. “This is just the latest and greatest example of who Trump is”added the vice-president. “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”Joe Biden got carried away, attacking the management “shameful” of the coronavirus crisis by his predecessor during an event in Pennsylvania.
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Silent on this subject on his social networks, Donald Trump let one of his spokespersons respond for him to the revelations of Bob Woodward who counts among his feats of arms the uncovering of the Watergate scandal, which resulted in the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. “None of these fabricated stories by Bob Woodward are true, this is the work of a truly insane and unhinged man“, said Steven Cheung, saying that the book “could be used as toilet paper”. This work, which appears two weeks before a key presidential election, in any case reinforces fears for the fate of Ukraine in the event of the Republican’s return to the White House.
