American journalist Bob Woodward has revealed in his new book titled “War” that the former United States President Donald Trump has had no fewer than seven phone calls with the incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin since he left office in 2020. He also disclosed that Trump secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines in 2020 at the peak of the pandemic.
According to the new book authored by the Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, the former United States President Trump once asked his aide to leave the office when he wanted to have a private conversation with the Russian President. The book further revealed that the duo has had up to seven calls since Trump left the White House.
Bod Woodward noted that Putin had urged Trump not to make their private relationship public. After a little hesitation from the US former president, who said he didn’t care if it got public, he later succumbed to keeping it secret.
Reacting to the development, Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director disclaimed the book’s assertions, describing it as a “made up stories” contained in a book that should be used as a “toilet paper”. “None 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,” Cheung said in a statement.
“President Trump gave him absolutely no access to this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or is used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.” He added.
The book is due to be out next week; however, The Associated Press got a copy earlier, and CNN reported on its contents on Tuesday.
Donald Trump is the Republican presidential candidate for the November 5 election, and he will be competing with the incumbent US vice president, Kamala Harris.
