From the Moscow Times:
“Trump Secretly Sent Putin
Rare Covid Tests at Pandemic's Height, Book Reveals – WP”
Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump
secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a
domestic shortage at the height of the pandemic in 2020, The Washington Post
reported Tuesday, citing its associate editor Bob Woodward’s upcoming book. Putin,
a known germophobe who was widely said to have taken extra precautionary
measures including extended self-isolation during the pandemic, reportedly
accepted Trump’s tests but urged him to avoid going public about them. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because
people will get mad at you, not me,” Putin was quoted as saying to Trump at the
time.
Woodward’s “War,” an account of
the Biden administration’s management of the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Hamas
wars which comes out next Tuesday, does not cite the source for the story.
The Kremlin has not commented on
the report in the book, while Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign spokesman said
“None of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true” and argued his book
should be “used as toilet tissue.” “War” cites an unnamed Trump aide saying
that he may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times since leaving the
presidency in 2021.
One of the latest Trump-Putin
talks may have taken place at his Mar-a-Lago residence in early 2024,
suggesting the personal relationship between the two men appears to have
persisted long after Trump left office. Trump’s continuing influence on the
Republican Party had also slowed legislative votes on sending U.S. military aid
packages to Ukraine, the book reportedly said. Senior Republicans were able to
convince Trump that softening his stance would help the party win seats and him
the presidency in November.
Elsewhere in the book, Woodward
reports that a “human source inside the Kremlin” alongside other American spies
had helped U.S. intelligence gain “remarkable insight” into Russia’s plans to
invade Ukraine in 2022.
^ I do not know if this actually happened, but it sounds plausible. Trump has repeatedly shown he is influenced by Putin and he (Trump) clearly didn't care that hundreds of Americans were dying of Covid every day. ^
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