{"id":129966,"date":"2024-10-08T21:11:17","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/trump-and-putin-are-even-better-buddies-than-previously-thought-new-woodward-book-reveals\/"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-10-08T21:11:17","slug":"trump-and-putin-are-even-better-buddies-than-previously-thought-new-woodward-book-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/trump-and-putin-are-even-better-buddies-than-previously-thought-new-woodward-book-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and Putin Are Even Better Buddies Than Previously Thought, New Woodward Book Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"


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It\u2019s no secret that Donald Trump<\/strong> is a huge<\/a> fan<\/a> of<\/a> dictators<\/a>, and that one dictator in particular has his heart. We speak, of course, of Vladimir Putin<\/strong> (though Kim Jong Un<\/strong> is certainly<\/a> getting flowers and candy on Valentine\u2019s Day too). As president of the United States, Trump sided with Putin<\/a> over his own intelligence officials. He has an endless supply of good things to say about the Russian authoritarian, having called him a \u201cgenius\u201d and \u201csavvy\u201d<\/a> for invading Ukraine. He has defended<\/a> Putin over (credible) accusations that the Russian president has had journalists and dissidents murdered. He has openly called on<\/a> Putin to help him take down Joe Biden.<\/strong> Should he win another term in office, many fear<\/a> he will cut off support to Ukraine, and let Russia take over<\/a>. And according to a new report, he has kept in very, very<\/em> close touch with his favorite despot in recent years.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reports that in a new book\u2014War,<\/em> out next week\u2014veteran journalist Bob Woodward<\/strong> reveals<\/a> that Trump \u201chas secretly spoken with President Vladimir V. Putin\u2026as many as seven times since leaving office, even as he was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine to fight Russian invaders.\u201d In one scene, Woodward writes that in early 2024, the ex-president ordered an aide to leave his office at Mar-a-Lago so he could speak with Putin by phone. That aide, according to Woodward, estimates that Trump and Putin might have spoken on half a dozen other occasions since Trump left the White House in 2021.<\/p>\n

As the Times<\/em> notes, \u201cformer presidents meet with foreign counterparts after leaving office from time to time,\u201d and Trump has hosted Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban<\/strong> at Mar-a-Lago. But those meetings were not a secret, and \u201cit would be highly unusual for a former president to privately talk with a top American adversary like Mr. Putin without clearing it with the current administration\u2014especially at a time when the United States and Russia are on opposite sides of a war in Europe.\u201d On the other hand, Trump does a lot of things that are \u201chighly unusual,\u201d like trying to steal a second term in office after losing an election.<\/p>\n

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The book also reports that Mr. Trump, while still in office early during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, secretly sent Mr. Putin what were then rare Abbott Point of Care test machines for the Russian\u2019s personal use. Mr. Putin, who has been described as particularly anxious about being infected at the time, urged Mr. Trump to not publicly reveal the gesture because it could damage the American president politically. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me,\u201d Mr. Putin reportedly told him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Trump campaign has, of course, attacked Woodward, calling him \u201ca total sleazebag\u201d who is \u201cslow, lethargic, incompetent, and overall a boring person with no personality,\u201d and claiming, \u201cNone of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n

During an interview that aired on 60 Minutes<\/em> last night, Kamala Harris<\/strong> warned voters, \u201cDonald Trump, if he were president, Putin would be sitting in Kyiv right now. He talks about, \u2018Oh, he can end it on day one.\u2019 You know what that is? It\u2019s about surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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