Trump schickte Putin während der Knappheit im Jahr 2020 heimlich Covid-Tests, heißt es in einem neuen Buch

As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a [shortage of tests](https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/04/18/timeline-coronavirus-testing/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2) designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.

Putin, petrified of the virus, accepted the supplies but took pains to prevent political fallout — not for him, but for his American counterpart. He cautioned Trump not to reveal that he had dispatched the scarce medical equipment to Moscow, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor [Bob Woodward](https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/bob-woodward/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4).

Putin, according to the book, told Trump, “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.”

Four years later, the personal relationship between the two men appears to have persisted, Woodward reports, as Trump campaigns to return to the White House and Putin orchestrates his bloody assault on Ukraine. In early 2024, the former president ordered an aide away from his office at Mar-a-Lago, his private club and residence in Florida, so he could conduct a private phone call with the Russian leader, according to Woodward’s account.

Read more here: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com)

But it’s the “Russia hoax,” right?

Putin owns this prick.

Didn’t think I could hate this guy any more than I already do

“But the unnamed Trump aide cited in the book indicated that the GOP standard-bearer may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times since Trump left the White House in 2021.”

Some say it with flowers, some say it with COVID tests.

Selling out America

Him calling Putin seven times since 2021, too. Media really burying the lede on that one.

And Lindsay Graham described Mar a Lago as being “like North Korea.”. Which is hilarious, if not as important.

Of course he did.

It shows that Trump accepted the fact that COVID was a serious threat as he immediately helped his buddy at the expense of American citizens.

Trump has obviously been a Russian asset for years.

I excitedly await no mainstream media to ask him about this…

such a simp

pathetic

He also sent PPE supplies to China. So he helped our allies….China and Russia. Got it.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-tons-ppe-china/

So this is him being tough on Russia, right?

Why do these just come out as books when people leave the administration INSTEAD OF CASES WTF (o ya money)

Now we understand why Trump has hardly condemned Putin for invading Russia and favoured an end to the conflict that allows Putin to own part of Ukraine. This is treason. This is more than disqualifies Trump for the presidency.

It’s the hiding it that makes it worse.

If Trump sent a few boxes solely for Putin to use and admitted it. I’d probably think it’s ridiculous but I’d understand that world leaders need to be cautious and that a dead Putin would destabilize Russia in a bad time. I understand why we need all world leaders to function.

But the issue is he only sent them to Putin and no other leader. He hid the fact he did it. Putin asked him to lie, and he did. What a piece of shit

I don’t know about this new book but Bob Woodwards other books were really interesting reads. Worth the price of admission just to read Trump’s love letters to Kim Jong Un even though he (Trump) was not smart enough to realize the guy writing him back was probably just some guy working for Kims administration and pulling on Trump’s heart strings pretending to be Kim. Very funny if you ignore that the guy (Trump) was the President of the United States.

To this day, I’ll never understand how a near majority of Silents and Boomers (and even Gen Xers) turned from being anti-Russia, anti-Soviet Union, having grown up during the Cold War (and many having fought the Soviet Union in Korea, Vietnam…), to being pro-Russia in their support of Trump. There are a lot of insane things Trump has managed to get his supporters to believe, but the going soft on Russia one has to be one of the most befuddling. These people literally did a 180 on a country that dominated the second half of the 20th century as our biggest enemy both in peacetime and in war.

Like, do they remember Rocky haha!?

If this is true then he is a traitor

Donald Trump is a traitor.

Period.

He was sending tests to Russia while American people were struggling to find them, and he’s maintained contact with Putin this whole time.

Sent supplies to Putin while Americans were dying. What a treasonous sack of shit.

Fucking Traitor!