Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have had up to seven secret telephone conversations since the former US president left the White House, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward, who reveals this information in Warhis new book scheduled for release on October 15. War describes a scene earlier this year at Mar-a-Lago where Trump asks an aide to leave the room he is in so he can make a call to the Kremlin strongman.
The aide, who is not identified in the book, told Woodward that Trump and Putin have spoken a half-dozen other times since Trump left the White House. He was unable to provide information on the nature or subject of these calls. Some of them came during the period when the issue of military aid to Ukraine was being debated in the US Congress.
War also reveals that Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 test kits for his personal use, when they were still extremely rare in the United States. Putin advised Trump not to reveal this gift. “I don’t want you to talk about it to anyone, because it’s you who will be blamed, not me,” the Russian president reportedly told him.
“None of these stories made up by Bob Woodward are true,” said Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who clarified that Trump did not grant an interview to Woodward for his book which “should be placed in the fiction section of a cheap bookstore or used as toilet paper.”
War traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crises and concludes that Trump is worse than Richard Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.
“Trump has been the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and he is demonstrating the same character as a presidential candidate in 2024,” Woodward writes.
In a report (free link), the Washington Post adds: “Published on the eve of the presidential election, Woodward, which chronicles the successes and failures of American presidents for 50 years, concludes that Trump is unfit for office while President Joe Biden and his team, despite from their mistakes, demonstrated “stable and determined leadership”. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, appears several times in the story, with Woodward presenting her as a wise and loyal number two to Mr. Biden, but not as an influential voice in his foreign policy. administration. »
The book confirms that Biden does not hold Benjamin Netanyahu or Putin in his heart.
“That son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, is a bad guy. He’s a fucking bad guy! Biden privately told one of his aides in the spring of 2024, as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified, Mr. Woodward writes.
According to Woodward, Biden also told his advisers in the Oval Office shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine: “Fucking Putin is evil. Putin is evil. We are dealing with the incarnation of evil. »
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