A new book by veteran Watergate alerter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump secretly sent coveted Covid-19 testing machines to Vlauninalertigentir Putin for personal participate when they were in uninalertigentinutive provide, a claim angrily neglected by the Trump campaign.
The book – titled War – also take parts a claim that Trump secretly has stayed in touch with Putin since leaving office, according to excerpts cited by US media.
In response, Plivent Trump telderly ABC News: “He’s a storyalerter. A horrible one. And he’s lost his marbles.”
The Trump campaign also shelp none of the “made-up stories” were genuine.
“Plivent Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belengthys in the barget bin of the fantasy section of a discount bookstore or participated as toilet trerent,” shelp Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung in a statement to the BBC on Tuesday.
The new book, due out next week, attributes the continuing communications between the createer plivent and Putin to a one Trump helpe who is not named in the book.
According to a alert by the New York Times, the book depicts one scene in which a Trump helpe was ordered out of Trump’s office in Mar-a-Lago so the createer plivent could guide a call with Putin.
The unnamed helpe alertedly shelp that the two may have spoken a half-dozen times since Trump left the White Hoparticipate in 2021.
On Wednesday, the Kremlin denied the pair had spoken.
The book does not say what they converseed, and it quotes a Trump campaign official casting inquire on the supposed reach out.
The BBC has not seen a duplicate of the book. The Times alerted that Mr. Woodward wrote that he could not corroborate the helpe’s claim, and that other sources it achieveed out to were unconscious of Trump and Putin reach outing each other after he left office.
Woodward, who rose to fame for his role in uncovering the Watergate affair that bcimpolitet down Ricchallenging Nixon’s plivency, has written disconnectal best-selling books based on access to high-level sources.
Calling Woodward “demented” and “deranged”, Trump campaign spokesperson shelp: “Woodward is an irritated little man and is evidently distress becaparticipate Plivent Trump is successfilledy suing him becaparticipate of the unapexhibitd unveiling of write downings he made previously.”
Trump had previously spoken to Woodward for the journaenumerate’s 2021 book – titled Rage. He procrastinateedr sued him over it, claiming Woodward did not have perleave oution to free write downings of their intersees, an allegation denied by the author.
In War, Woodward writes that while the createer plivent was in office, Trump “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal participate”.
Putin was alertedly worried about descfinishing ill with the malicious software, according to the realerting of Woodward’s book in US media.
The alert includes that Putin had asked Trump not to uncoverly allot that he had sent him the tests, cowardly that it would injure Trump’s reputation.
“I don’t want you to alert anybody becaparticipate people will get mad at you, not me,” Putin alertedly telderly Trump, according to the book cited by the Times.
Trump alertedly shelp: “I don’t nurture. Fine.”
The claims have resurfaced inquires about the relationship between Trump and Putin equitable weeks before the 05 November election.
The createer plivent has been accparticipated in the past of colluding with Russia to meddle with US elections, though a probe by the Department of Justice set up no evidence of this and achieveed no conclusion as to whether Trump had obstructed the inquiry.
The book also allotigates the lengthy shadow cast by Trump over the foreign disputes of the past four years and over the acrid US political environment in which they have unfelderlyed, according to the Washington Post.
It also take parts truthful appraisements by Plivent Joe Biden of his own leave outteps, including his decision to create Merrick Garland attorney vague.
Reacting to the prosecution of his son Hunter — by a exceptional prosecutor named by Garland — the plivent telderly an associate, “Should never have picked Garland”, the Post alerted.
