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Oct. 8 2024 at 10:06 p.m
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Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 screening tests to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin while he was in the White House and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, while the United States lacked them, a new book reveals. publication by Bob Woodward, American journalism legend.
A behind-the-scenes columnist at the White House for half a century with the Washington Post, Bob Woodward revealed with Carl Bernstein the Watergate scandal leading to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
In his new book “War”, to be released on October 15, he also writes that Donald Trump has maintained a personal relationship with Vladimir Putin, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine and while he aspires to return home- White.
“I don’t want you to tell anyone.”
According to the account of the American media who had access to the book, Vladimir Putin received the anti-Covid tests and urged Donald Trump not to say anything: “I don’t want you to tell anyone, people will be in shock. angry with you, not with me,” the Russian president reportedly told him.
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.
Kamala Harris outraged
“None of these stories fabricated by Bob Woodward are true, it is the work of a truly insane and unbalanced man,” responded Steven Cheung, one of the spokespersons for the Republican candidate in a statement. the presidential election, saying that the book “could serve as toilet paper”.
Donald Trump’s Democratic rival expressed her indignation. “ Everyone in America was struggling to get kits (…) and this guy sends them to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use? »
“This is just the latest and greatest example of who Trump is,” the vice president added.
These revelations once again shine the spotlight on the relationship established by Donald Trump with Russia and risk reinforcing fears for the fate of Ukraine in the event of the Republican’s return to the White House.
Source AFP
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