Trump kept in touch with Putin after Trump left office
An aide to Trump told Woodward he was once asked to leave a room at Trump’s home in Florida so he could have a private phone call with Putin.
So while POTUS trump met with Putin in secrecy, and has met with him since.
“According to Trump’s aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021,”
Trump has spoken fondly of Putin over the years; he used the words
“genius” and “savvy” to describe Putin’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, for instance.
Another revelation in Woodward’s new title is that Trump sent Putin a secret shipment of COVID-19 testing equipment in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, when tests could sometimes be hard to come by. Putin reportedly begged Trump not to tell.
“I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me,” Putin said, according to Woodward. “They don’t care about me.”
The book also reports Trump gave Putin a hand at the height of the COVID pandemic.
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