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The Kremlin spokesperson assures that Russia also “sent equipment at the start of the pandemic” to the United States.
INTERNATIONAL – A massive blow for Donald Trump. After the revelations by American journalist Bob Woodward on Covid-19 screening tests sent by the former American president to Vladimir Putin, Trump’s team denied it. However, the Kremlin has just confirmed, this Wednesday, October 9, this information provided in the investigative book War.
And the Russian government even claims that the deliveries were reciprocal. To Bloomberg News, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov declared that Russia had “sent equipment at the start of the pandemic” in the United States. Without detailing precisely the equipment concerned.
The fact that the United States and Russia exchanged medical equipment during the pandemic was already known information, reports Politico. But Bob Woodward writes in his book that when Trump was still president in 2020, he “secretly sent Putin a number of testing devices (…) for his personal use ”, at a time when Covid tests were lacking in the United States.
No “calls” between Putin and Trump
On the other hand, Dmitri Peskov informed the American press agency that there had been no “calls” between Trump and Putin. According to an anonymous adviser in journalist Bob Woodward’s book, Donald Trump has indeed spoken to Vladimir Putin in secret up to seven times since he left the White House in 2021.
On the other hand, Trump’s team completely denied the revelations of Bob Woodward, known in particular for having helped to explode the ” Watergate ». « 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 ».
Vice-President Kamala Harris, candidate against Donald Trump in the November presidential election, was quick to react, seeing it as good ground to attack her competitor. Recalling that Americans had lacked materials during the pandemic, she castigated Tuesday evening on the show The Late Show : “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.”
The book War is White House columnist Bob Woodward’s fourth since Trump’s surprise victory in 2016.
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