Trump-Putin proximity, Russian nuclear threat, double talk from Kamala Harris… the revelations in the book by journalist Bob Woodward

Behind-the-scenes chronicler of the White House for half a century for the Washington PostBob Woodward is at the origin – with Carl Bernstein – of the investigation into the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974. The journalist awarded two times the Pulitzer Prize returns today with Wara work to be published on October 15, 2024 in which he strives to lift the veil on the political underside of the biggest ongoing conflicts.

The war in Ukraine and the Middle East, but also the martial struggle between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump in this final stretch of the American presidential campaign. Certain aspects of the work have already been revealed by English-speaking newspapers on Tuesday October 8, including Washington Post.

Close relations between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

Less than a month before the US presidential election, Bob Woodward ignited the situation by highlighting the alleged close relationship between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. According to his sources, the two politicians have spoken by telephone up to seven times since Donald Trump left the White House in 2021. Furthermore, the latter would have sent test kits for Covid-19 to Vladimir Putin during the Covid-19 crisis in 2020. The United States, of which he was president, was then struggling with a shortage of medical equipment.

Joe Biden would have avoided a Russian nuclear strike

Second revelation from the investigation: the American intelligence services would have become aware at the beginning of 2022 of the fact that Vladimir Putin was planning to invade Ukraine and use nuclear force to do so. This second intention would have been defused by the government of Joe Biden in October 2022.

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Russia had just accused Ukraine of wanting to use a radioactive bomb against it, an allegation aimed at justifying the nuclear attack that Moscow was preparing according to American intelligence. While publicly taking his Russian counterpart to task on his intentions, Joe Biden is said to have secretly put pressure on Chinese President Xi Jinping to reason with Vladimir Putin.

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Kamala Harris “conciliatory” with Benjamin Netanyahu

Third revelation of War : the position taken by the Democratic candidate for the American presidency, Kamala Harris, on the war between Israel and Hamas would only be a smokescreen. During a meeting in Washington in July, the current vice president pressed the Israeli prime minister to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza and declared that we should not “remain silent” in the face of the suffering of the Palestinian people. However, according to Bob Woodward, Kamala Harris would have adopted a completely different tone during her meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, organized the day before at the White House. “She wants to play tough in public, but she was much more conciliatory in private,” the Israeli ambassador to Washington, Michael Herzog, reportedly decreed.

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Although the work provides ammunition to both sides in the war for the American presidency, its author explicitly takes the side of the government of Joe Biden, which he concludes by asserting has demonstrated “stable and resolute governance” unlike Donald Trump, described as “unfit to lead a country”.