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On one situation not less than, the Kremlin has sided with Bob Woodward in opposition to Donald Trump.
Woodward has a brand new ebook popping out, and one of many key revelations in it’s his report on what occurred when the pandemic hit, when the loss of life toll soared and folks could not get Covid-19 testing kits at house.
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President Trump secretly despatched Vladimir Putin quite a lot of Abbott Level of Care Covid testing machines “for his private use” at the moment in 2020.
The Trump marketing campaign stated Woodward’s ebook, a replica of which CNN obtained prematurely, consisted totally of made-up tales.
However Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed receipt of the Covid machines.
Aspect by aspect with former President Donald Trump and investigative journalist Bob Woodward. (Getty Photographs)
“As for testing, when the pandemic began, international locations didn’t have ample tools,” Peskov stated. “And plenty of international locations then exchanged such messages of help and despatched one another shipments of the assorted tools that they’d.”
In that spring of 2020, Russia even despatched the Trump administration 60 tons of medical tools.
Woodward additionally quotes the Russian dictator who instructed Trump, “I do not need you to inform anybody as a result of folks will get mad at you, not at me. They do not care about me.”
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However Peskov disputed one other of Woodward’s claims that Trump has stayed in contact with Putin since leaving the White Home, with as many as seven telephone calls between them. “As for the telephone calls, that is a lie,” Peskov stated.
Nonetheless, within the ebook “Struggle,” the Washington Put up sleuth recounts a scene through which Trump tells a prime aide to go away the room in order that “he stated he might have a non-public telephone dialog with Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Trump officers now say they aren’t conscious of any such conversations.
The previous president granted Woodward 18 recorded interviews for his earlier ebook, however they fell out after the veteran reporter wrote that Trump was unfit for workplace — and was sued by his topic for releasing the recordings.
On this swimming pool photograph distributed by Russia’s state-run Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the appearing governor of the Kaliningrad area on the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence exterior Moscow on August 14, 2024. (Gavriil Grigorov/POOL/AFP through Getty Photographs)
I do know Woodward’s work extraordinarily properly, and whereas any journalist will be misled by sources, he would not make issues up.
Different components of the ebook give attention to Joe Biden confronting Putin concerning the coming invasion of Ukraine, the place Kamala Harris warned a skeptical Volodomyr Zelenskyy, and – with officers assuming a 50 p.c probability that he would use a tactical nuclear weapon in opposition to the Ukrainians known as the Kremlin boss the ’embodiment of evil’.
The president repeatedly cursed Bibi Netanyahu, calling him an SOB and later a “rattling liar” after the Israeli prime minister invaded the crowded Rafah space regardless of US stress.
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The Trump spokesman’s assertion, which sounds as if it was dictated by the boss, describes Woodward as “a really demented and disturbed man affected by a debilitating type of Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Woodward is an offended little man and is clearly upset. as President Trump efficiently sues him over the unauthorized publication of recordings he beforehand made. President Trump has given him completely no entry to this trash ebook that both belongs within the cut price bin of the fiction part of a reduction bookstore or is used as rest room paper. Woodward is a complete sleazebag who’s mentally misplaced, and he’s sluggish, torpid, incompetent, and usually a boring individual with no persona.
Why cease there?
Trump, who prides himself on being a counter-puncher, wastes little time earlier than swinging away.
U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris poses in the course of the Unite for America livestreaming rally in Farmington Hills, Michigan, on September 19, 2024. (SAUL LOEB/AFP through Getty Photographs)
After Harris’ pleasant radio interview with Howard Stern, who stated it could be insanity to vote for Trump, this message appeared on Fact Social:
“BETA MAN Howard Stern fooled himself on his low-rated radio present when he ‘interviewed’ Lyin’ Kamala Harris and hit her with so many SOFTBALL questions that even she was embarrassed.
“He seemed like an actual idiot, who labored so arduous to make a completely incompetent and ill-equipped individual look nearly as good as doable, which wasn’t superb. I dropped Howard a very long time in the past, as did most others, and have since been credited with an excellent judgment!”
Donald and Howard, after all, had been as soon as buddies from New York, and Trump attended his wedding ceremony.
Trump additionally had marketing campaign supervisor Chris LaCivita take a swipe at Fox Information for (together with different networks) overlaying an administration briefing, with each Biden and Harris, on Hurricane Milton because the monster storm headed towards Florida.
“@FoxNews is as unhealthy as every other ‘cable information’ community…that actually places out propaganda and @KamalaHarris TV adverts disguised as a press convention,” Chris LaCivita wrote on X.
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After all, there’s a political benefit for Harris, displaying that she and FEMA are working arduous to arrange for the storm in Florida, simply as there may be when Ron DeSantis is urgent the Class 5 risk.
However with Kamala’s media blitz lastly making some headlines after weeks of Trump dominating marketing campaign protection, it displays his dedication to incorporate himself in each story that emerges, regardless of how destructive.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel MediaBuzz (Sunday 11am – 12pm ET). Based mostly in Washington, DC, he joined the community in July 2013 and seems recurrently Particular report with Bret Baier and different applications.
