The Kremlin confirmed Thursday that the United States sent Covid-19 tests to Russia under the presidency of donald trumpbut he assured that it was a exchange of material to fight the pandemic.
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Bob Woodward, American journalism legend, claims in a new book that the Republican donald trump secretly sent batches of covid-19 tests to the russian president Vladimir Putin.
But according to the Russian presidency, it was simply international cooperation in the midst of a pandemic. “It was the beginning of the pandemic, (…) the first tests did not work well and at first there was a shortage of material. At that time, all countries were trying to make exchanges,” declared Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin spokesman, during a telephone exchange with journalists.
I don’t want you to tell anyone because people will be mad at you, not me.
“We sent a batch of artificial respirators (to the United States) and the Americans sent us these tests,” he added, in response to the claims in Bob Woodward’s book.
Peskov also once again denied another statement by the journalist, who claims that Trump spoke with Putin secretly up to seven times since leaving the White House in 2021.
“As for the calls, it is not true, they did not occur,” insisted the spokesman for the Russian presidency.
White House Chronicler for half a century with the Washington Post, Bob Woodward Together with Carl Bernstein, he uncovered the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon in 1974.
In his new book “War”, which will go on sale on October 15, he writes that now-presidential candidate Donald Trump has maintained his relationship with Putin, despite the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
According to the story of the American media that has had access to the book, Putin received the covid tests and would have asked Trump not to say anything.
“I don’t want you to tell anyone because people will be angry with you, not me,” the Russian president would have said to Trump.
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