Donald Trump did he send Covid screening tests to Vladimir Poutineat a time when his country was cruelly lacking? This is what journalist Bob Woodward, historical figure of the Washington Postwhich publishes the good leaves of his book “War“ to be released Tuesday October 15 in the United States.
Monument of American journalism since his investigation into Watergate conducted with Carl Bernstein, and which led to the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, the seasoned Bob Woodward has since become accustomed to chronicling the political life of the country, and taking his readers behind the scenes of the White House.
This is what he does in this new book, where he believes that Donald Trump is worse than Richard Nixon. “Trump was the most impulsive and reckless president in history, he said, and the candidate shows the same personality in 2024“. To support his criticism, Bob Woodward reveals a astonishing episode which he places at the beginning of 2020, when panic spread across the world in the face of the Covid-19 epidemic. Donald Trump would have secretly sent screening tests to Vladimir Putin, at a time when the United States was facing a shortage.
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**The Russian president, petrified at the idea of falling ill, suggested that he not publicize the affair, advice followed to the letter by the American president. An anecdote that Kamala Harris immediately seized on to criticize her rival, less than a month before their duel at the polls: “Everyone in America was struggling to get kits and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use?“. The author also mentions these regular telephone calls between the two men, at least seven according to him since Donald Trump left the White House. As for the Republican candidate’s campaign team, these accusations are brushed aside. “None of these stories made up by Bob Woodward are true, they are the work of a truly insane and unbalanced man.“.
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and Benjamin Netanyahou
The book doesn’t just focus on Donald Trump. The president, Joe Biden, is described as “constant and determined” but angry in private, according to the author, who cites his crude remarks aimed at Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu describing him as “a bad guy only interested in his political survival“. The Israeli Prime Minister, a key figure in recent months, appears there, exasperated by the vice-president and candidate, warm in private, but very critical of her in public. Kamala Harris whose book depicts the lack of weight in crucial decisions in Washington.
Behind these anecdotes, always juicy, Bob Woodward describes above all an increasingly weak American influence in the Middle East and an administration incapable of influencing Israeli strategy, at a time when a possible response to Iran could be invited into the final sprint of the presidential campaign.
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