The Kremlin confirmed that former US President Donald Trump while in company sent Russian President Vladimir Putin Covid-19 screening tools during the top of the pandemic, as recounted in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the testing had been sent, but denied the book’s claim that the two leaders had spoken by phone numerous times since Trump left office.
“We likewise sent products at the beginning of the pandemic, ” Peskov said in a written response when asked about the book. “ But about the phone calls — it ’s not true. ”
The text from the famous journalist of Watergate popularity reports that Trump, while president in 2020, discreetly sent Abbott Covid checking systems to Putin when the products were limited, according to CNN.
In a statement earlier Tuesday, the Trump campaign pushed up on the allegations, saying “none of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are real ” and accusing the journalist of discrimination.
“President Trump gave him positively no admittance for this trash reserve that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount store or used as bathroom tissues, ” Steven Cheung, the Trump campaign’s communications director, wrote in a statement.
US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris sought to capitalise on the book’s investigating.
“That is just the most recent, striking example of who Donald Trump is, ” Harris said Tuesday in an interview on The Howard Stern Show.
The vice president said persons were “scrambling to get these products ” during the crisis, adding, “And this man who is president of the United States is sending them to Russia, to a violent tyrant, for his personal use? ”
“ I believe that Donald Trump has this desire to be a tyrant, ” Harris said. “ He admires strong people, and he gets played by them because he thinks that they’re his buddies and they are manipulating him full-time, and manipulating him by praise and with favour. ”
President Joe Biden even criticized Trump over the document during a charity for Democratic Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on Tuesday night.
“Those assessments to tell you whether you had Covid were in short supply, so he called his good friend, Putin, not a joke, to make sure he had the tests, ” Biden said. “ What’s wrong with this guy? ”
Trump’s connection with Putin has become a destination for Democrats, including Harris and Biden, looking to put the Democratic presidential nomination as very comfortable with dictators and jeopardizing the security of the US and its allies.
Trump has huge boasted about his relationship with Putin, including by claiming that he could broker an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine if he’s elected again to the White House, without detailing how he would achieve that.
The past president has assailed Biden over Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s conflict with Hamas in the Middle East, saying they would not have happened if the Republican was still in business.
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Kremlin: Trump sent Putin Covid tests while President
File photo: Former US President Donald Trump ( Al Drago/The New York Times )
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