Trump spoke with Putin multiple times since leaving office, Woodward book reports
The Trump campaign vehemently denied that the GOP nominee has been in touch with Russia’s president
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021, journalist Bob Woodward reports in a forthcoming book obtained by CNN.
Woodward also writes that Trump, while in office, sent Putin Covid-19 testing machines for his private use during the height of the pandemic. The reporting, which the Trump campaign vehemently denied, quickly reignited allegations of an overly cozy relationship between the two leaders that Trump has for years worked to downplay and dismiss.
Trump campaign aide Jason Miller told Woodward for the book that he had not heard of such calls. Campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung was adamant in denying Woodward’s reporting and vicious in leveling personal attacks against the veteran journalist best known for his work at The Washington Post during the Watergate scandal.
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Trump spoke with Putin seven times since leaving office, Woodward book reports https://t.co/BzqnRSQjRk
— POLITICO (@politico) October 8, 2024
Let’s face it, neither one of them have many friends https://t.co/D5kKnBSc3v
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) October 8, 2024
This seems important 👇 pic.twitter.com/HeL33cvmtC
— Matt Walton, M.Ed (@Matt4VA) October 8, 2024
While Americans were dying of Covid due to his negligence, Trump was sending his buddy Putin care packages.
While Putin invaded Ukraine, Trump was undercutting US foreign policy by having several secret phone calls with Putin.
We’ve seen it again and again. No matter the…
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 8, 2024
Read "‘Don’t tell anybody’: Bob Woodward book claims Putin urged @realDonaldTrump to keep quiet about gift." #SmartNews: https://t.co/P4hTEiRoOL
— JCourt (@jpcourt) October 8, 2024
Private citizens are forbidden under the federal Logan Act from engaging in foreign policy undercutting America.
So why did private citizen Donald Trump have at least SEVEN one on one phone calls with Putin since he left the White House (in which time Putin invaded Ukraine)?
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) October 8, 2024
Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so “he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”https://t.co/9avpfIXitX
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) October 8, 2024
Imagine if we learned today that Kamala Harris was having regular conversations with Vladimir Putin, had sent him a special Covid testing kit, falsely claimed to have visited Gaza, was repeatedly lying about the federal hurricane response, and said that the country had bad genes
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) October 8, 2024
So, let me get this straight, Donald Trump was sitting in Mar-a-Lago on a trove of stolen U.S. national secrets and while there, had Vladimir Putin on speed dial for regular private chats? After he tried to overthrow our government? And Putin is helping his campaign now? And…
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) October 8, 2024
Breaking NYT:
Trump has spoken with Vladimir Putin as many as seven times since leaving office — even as he was pressuring Republicans to block military aid to Ukraine.
Trump also secretly sent Putin COVID tests — when they were rare and hard to get — while in office.
Putin…
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 8, 2024
More stories about Trump sending scarce Covid tests to Putin than about his secretly staying in touch with a dictator hostile to the US after leaving office. Another reminder that the "Russia hoax" was never a hoax at all, and what we don’t know is even worse than what we know. pic.twitter.com/fSrZ5JSPM9
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) October 8, 2024
Trump’s @realDonaldTrump 7 meetings with Putin…
It is reasonable there is a recording of these calls in an exquisite intel program. Trump would not be the target of the collection, but because Putin is a high-value target, Trump would be caught in the collection. The Russians… pic.twitter.com/7SkTEAbZqM— Alexander S. Vindman 🇺🇸 (@AVindman) October 8, 2024
Former White House adviser and UN ambassador Susan Rice says former President Trump’s reported calls with Vladimir Putin appear illegal https://t.co/yQ6hsl4svC
— The Hill (@thehill) October 10, 2024
Trump says if he did talk to Putin, ‘it’s a smart thing.’ https://t.co/WX0VScAt1H
— POLITICO (@politico) October 15, 2024
Non-denial denial from Trump about whether he's been speaking to Putin since leaving office Jan 2021. https://t.co/IIp3JUaLO7
— Andrew S. Weiss (@andrewsweiss) October 15, 2024
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