Trump Campaign Denies Bob Woodward's Russia Accusations

The Facts

• In his not-yet-released book, American journalist Bob Wood claims former US Pres. Donald Trump in 2020 secretly gave Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin COVID testing machines when they were still rare in the pandemic's early days. He alleges that Putin told Trump not "to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me."

• The book, citing one anonymous aide, also claims that Trump has held as many as seven phone calls with Putin since leaving office in 2021. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung denied all the allegations.

• Cheung also claimed that Woodward, whom Trump is currently suing for $50M over a previous book covering the Trump White House in 2019 and 2020, was never given "access" to the Trump campaign to conduct such reporting.