The famous American journalist Bob Woodward publishes a shocking new book on the corridors of power, in which he makes several revelations about Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Shattering new revelations. The new upcoming book by Bob Woodward, an American journalist known for his investigations, reveals new information on the links between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
War (“Guerre“, in French), to be published on October 15, reveals in particular that the Republican billionaire secretly sent Covid-19 screening tests to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he was at the White House, in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and despite the fact that the United States lacked it.
“I don’t want you to tell anyone.”
According to the account of the American media which had access to the book, Vladimir Putin received the anti-Covid tests and begged 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.
Speaking to the Bloomberg agency, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov confirmed this sending. “We also sent equipment at the start of the pandemic,” he added in a short written statement.
Kamala Harris, Donald Trump’s Democratic rival for the presidential election, expressed her indignation. “Everyone in America was struggling to get kits … and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use?” And added: “This is just the latest and most striking example of who Trump is.”
US President Joe Biden also reacted during an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday evening by denouncing Donald Trump’s “shameful” management of the pandemic. “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,” he said. he accused.
Seven telephone exchanges
In the same book, an anonymous adviser says 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 out from his office at the Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, to have a telephone conversation with the Russian president.
These exchanges were denied by the Kremlin. “No, that’s not the case,” Dmitry Peskov assured the Russian news site RBK.
“None of these stories fabricated by Bob Woodward are true, it is the work of a truly insane and unbalanced man,” said 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”.
A behind-the-scenes chronicler of the White House for half a century with the Washington Post, Bob Woodward revealed with Carl Bernstein the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
François Blanchard with AFP
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