Trump spoke to Putin since leaving office, Bob Woodward says in book

Los Angeles Times ^ | October 8, 2024 10:05 AM PT | Michelle L. Price and Meg Kinnard

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book “War.”

In the famed Watergate reporter’s latest book, Woodward reports that Trump asked an aide to leave his office at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, so that the former president could have a private call with Putin in early 2024. The aide, whom Woodward doesn’t name, said there have been multiple calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left office, perhaps as many as seven in that period, according to the book.

Woodward also reports that Trump sent Putin COVID-19 test machines for his personal use as the virus began spreading in 2020. Putin told Trump not to tell anyone because people would be mad at Trump over it, but Trump said he didn’t care if anyone knew, according to the book. Trump ended up agreeing not to tell anyone.

Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, derided the reporting as “made up stories” and said the book is a work of fiction that could double as toilet paper.

“None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Cheung said in a statement.

He added: “President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.”

[Allegra]

Did Deep Throat tell Bobby that?

[sopo]

The mechanics of this are so messed up. Woodward blows the cover of his his inside source? Anybody in the country doesn’t know phone calls to and from Putin monitored by NSA and no doubt provided on request to Biden? Either Woodward or LA Times totally desperate.

[silverleaf]

The security and intel services of this country have been on Trump like white on rice since 2016. Legally and extra-legally, so to speak

There is no such thing as a “ private call” to the President of Russia.

[bray]

Nixon never did anything illegal.

[Peter ODonnell]

Take the Packers to win but they won’t beat the spread.

[No name given]

Exactly.

[OLDCU]

Maybe he read it in the Steele dossier.

[drypowder]

L A Times and Bob Woodward? Now that’s a lying team if there ever was one.

[Mouton]

There is no such thing as a “ private call” to the President of Russia.

There is no such thing as a private call to the former President of the US either under this bunch.

[VTenigma]

So what? So far we are still free to speak to whomever we choose.

[montag813]

Nixon spoke to Russian and Chinese leaders almost weekly after his resignation, and I’m sure many other ex-presidents have done the same, except maybe the retard W.

[dp0622]

YES

And it’s disgusting....and it wont work...but I still @#$#ing hate them.

[clearcarbon]

"Trump spoke to Putin since leaving office, Bob Woodward says in book"

More from the book of Trump and Russian collusion, chapter what? I haven't been keeping up.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, derided the reporting as "made up stories" and said "None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome... President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he's slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality." [/snip]

[Robert DeLong]

So, Kerry spoke with Iran’s leader during Trump’s presidency.

[Stepan12]

Woodward makes up stories. William Casey comes to mind.

[TigersEye]

Even assuming it’s true, which is giving Woodward a lot of leeway, ... so what?

[mass55th]

"There is no such thing as a “ private call” to the President of Russia."

You're absolutely right.

[lodi90]

I had a peak and Drudge is headlining on “Trump/Putin” instead of the historic hurricane about to hit HIS state. Don’t need any more proof than that he is a tool and Democrats doing everything they can do avoid hurricane response questions.

[MayflowerMadam]

Rob Schmitt on Newsmax just asked Trump about that and PDJT said it’s absolutely not true.