Donald Trump and relations with Vladimir Putin? Here comes the tycoon’s ‘no comment’ regarding Bob Woodward’s revelations about the contacts he would have had, once he left the White House, with the number one in the Kremlin. But, interviewed during an economic forum in Chicago, he immediately added: “If you had them, it would be a smart move“.
“I have friendly relations with people, and if I have a good relationship with someone it is a positive thing, not a negative one, he has 2,000 nuclear weapons – he added, still referring to Putin – and so do we”.
After previews of Woodward’s book, “War”, were released by the American media, the Trump campaign declared that “none of the stories invented by Woodward are true”. The Kremlin then denied the phone calls between Trump and Putin, but confirmed that the then American president sent the Covid test kits.
Trump-Putin, Woodward’s revelations
In 2020, Trump secretly sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin for his personal use, revealed Bob Woodward, legendary journalist of the Watergate scandal, in the new book ‘War’, recalling that at the time tests in the United States were a scarce commodity. It was Putin, terrified of Covid, who recommended Trump not to publicize the shipment. “I don’t want you to tell anyone otherwise people will be angry with you, not with me,” Putin reportedly told Trump.
Since then, the personal relationship between the two would have remained alive. At the beginning of 2024, the former American president, now a candidate in next November’s elections, sent an aide away from his office in the Mar-a-Lago residence so he could speak privately on the phone with the Russian leader. Again according to the same source, Trump’s advisor, the former president has spoken to Putin seven times since he left the White House at the beginning of 2021.
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