CNN reports:
In 2020, Bob Woodward writes, Trump had “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.” Putin — who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid — told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports. “Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward. “I don’t care,” Trump replied. “Fine.”
Woodward writes that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin after leaving office. In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Putin.” “According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021,” Woodward writes.
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Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says https://t.co/QsK0IHBHyL
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) October 8, 2024
at a time most Americans couldn’t get their hands on a COVID test Trump sent some TO PUTIN?!? https://t.co/YEUt0IhWKk pic.twitter.com/N3hfaFi0mC
— Armand Domalewski (@ArmandDoma) October 8, 2024