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La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 9, 2024, p. 23

Washington. Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 test kits when he was president to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, despite shortages in the United States during the pandemic, and spoke with him several times after leaving office, according to a book by renowned journalist Bob Woodward.

in the book War (War), of which the newspaper Washington Post published several fragments yesterday, Woodward, one of the journalists who uncovered the Watergategives details about Trump.

He assures that the Republican candidate for the White House remained in contact with Putin, even during his campaign for another presidential term, despite Russia waging war against Ukraine, an ally of the United States.

In 2020, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Trump sent a batch of testing kits to Putin, who asked him to keep it a secret.

According to Woodward, Putin told Trump: I don’t want you to tell anyone, because people will be angry with you, not me..

The journalist also cites an anonymous Trump adviser who claims that the former president spoke with Putin up to seven times since he left the White House in 2021.

The book will go on sale on the 15th, just three weeks before a very close US election between Trump, a Republican, and Vice President Kamala Harris, a Democrat.

Trump was the most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the same character as a presidential candidate in 2024writes Woodward.

Trump’s campaign team called the book trash and made up stories. Are the work of a truly demented and deranged manCommunications director Steven Cheung told the AFP agency.