Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage

[wing2000]

....and may have spoken with Putin seven times since Trump left the White House in 2020. This, according to an unnamed Trump aide in Bob Wooward's upcoming book:

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

In early 2024, the former president ordered an aide away from his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, so he could conduct a private phone call with the Russian leader, according to Woodward’s account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/

 

[durangodawood]

Exceptionally weird.

I do think Trumps need to feel special is a huge vulnerability tho, which prominent people can exploit.

 

[rambot]

Not really that surprising to me frankly.

I'm more curious about whether his supporters will choose to minimize this actions or simply deny and demonize Woodward

 

[RileyG]

How odd.

 

[Trogdor the Burninator]

Not really that surprising to me frankly.

I'm more curious about whether his supporters will choose to minimize this actions or simply deny and demonize Woodward

You need to ask?

 

[rambot]

You need to ask?

Well it's one or the other. It's not like they're going to change their minds about Trump right....?

 

[wing2000]

How odd.

Putin is a well known germafobe so it would not suprise me if he requested US manufactured Covid test. (edited, replaced vaccines with tests).

 

[RileyG]

Putin is a well known germafobe so it would not suprise me if he requested US manufactured vaccines.

I wasn't aware of that.

If he drank more vodka, maybe he would be healthier I kid. I kid.

(As a Russian, he apparently doesn't drink)

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

....and may have spoken with Putin seven times since Trump left the White House in 2020. This, according to an unnamed Trump aide in Bob Wooward's upcoming book:

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

In early 2024, the former president ordered an aide away from his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, so he could conduct a private phone call with the Russian leader, according to Woodward’s account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/

Ah, of course: "according to an unnamed Trump aide in Bob Wooward's upcoming book." Heh.

 

[Pommer]

....and may have spoken with Putin seven times since Trump left the White House in 2020. This, according to an unnamed Trump aide in Bob Wooward's upcoming book:

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

In early 2024, the former president ordered an aide away from his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, so he could conduct a private phone call with the Russian leader, according to Woodward’s account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/

Meh.
Trump does thing, and the battle-lines form.
Rinse, repeat.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

Meh.
Trump does thing, and the battle-lines form.
Rinse, repeat.

Nice try at deflection, but no. You have to prove that this happened to make the assertion. All we have here is some anonymous source.

And the Woodward bias is heavy here.

Woodward just wrote a trilogy of hate books about Trump: FEAR (2018), RAGE (2020), and PERIL (2021). (Yes, in bolded print, unlike the other titles)

So, yeah...rinse and repeat here .... for Woodward.

Note his other books about Presidents are named more innocuous titles: All the President's Men, The Final Days, The Agenda, Shadow. Bush at war, Obama at War, The Price of Politics.

 

[rambot]

Nice try at deflection, but no. You have to prove that this happened to make the assertion. All we have here is some anonymous source.

Good point.

Republicans never EVER use anonymous sources. The ALWAYS know that Trump said it so.

And the Woodward bias is heavy here.

Woodward just wrote a trilogy of hate books about Trump: FEAR (2018), RAGE (2020), and PERIL (2021). (Yes, in bolded print, unlike the other titles)

I'm curious:
Do you think Woodward exists in a vaccuum or do you think that he researches the topics of his books and speaks to people present for the major events he writes about?
And when writer's and publishers print and publish books, do you think they START with the title, or that they first do the research and then come up with it based on a theme of the information they were receiving?

Note his other books about Presidents are named more innocuous titles: All the President's Men, The Final Days, The Agenda, Shadow. Bush at war, Obama at War, The Price of Politics.

I'd agree they are MORE innocuous, I wouldn't say they are NOT innucuous.

 

[RestoreTheJoy]

Good point.

Republicans never EVER use anonymous sources. The ALWAYS know that Trump said it so.

I'm curious:
Do you think Woodward exists in a vaccuum or do you think that he researches the topics of his books and speaks to people present for the major events he writes about?
And when writer's and publishers print and publish books, do you think they START with the title, or that they first do the research and then come up with it based on a theme of the information they were receiving?



I'd agree they are MORE innocuous, I wouldn't say they are NOT innucuous.

Again, deflection to a different question. One must prove an authoritative assertion, not just say, "Trust me, bro" - somebody told me!"

 

[rambot]

Again, deflection to a different question. One must prove an authoritative assertion, not just say, "Trust me, bro" - somebody told me!"

Why not? I see it ALL over the place here? I mean I can say 2 words: Hunter's Laptop....and we're "off and running" with the "prove an authoritative assertion".

And my question about woodward is not really a deflection. It's a perfectly reasonable question.

 

[Larniavc]

Republicans never EVER use anonymous sources. The ALWAYS know that Trump said it so.

To be fair, the foreign agents and bad actors that were used by the GOP when they were after impeaching the Biden ‘crime family’ were hardly anonymous.

 

[Postvieww]

....and may have spoken with Putin seven times since Trump left the White House in 2020. This, according to an unnamed Trump aide in Bob Wooward's upcoming book:

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward.

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

In early 2024, the former president ordered an aide away from his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, so he could conduct a private phone call with the Russian leader, according to Woodward’s account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/

Here we go again Russia, Russia, Russia. Actually Putin endorsed Kamala.

 

[Nithavela]

This really seems like peanuts. Hardly worth a story 4 years after the fact.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Kremlin claims Trump sent Covid test machines to Putin​

Peskov ... denied Woodward's claim that Trump and Putin have spoken on the telephone several times since Trump left office.

 

[That Guy 11200]

Here we go again Russia, Russia, Russia. Actually Putin endorsed Kamala.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/putin-was-joking-about-support-harris-us-election-says-foreign-minister-2024-09-21/

 

[wing2000]

...why would private-citizen Trump have phone calls with Putin?