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New Woodward Book 'War' Includes Trump, Biden Accusations
New Woodward Book 'War' Includes Trump, Biden Accusations
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The Facts
In his new book, American journalist Bob Woodward 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. Woodward also 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, however, has denied all allegations.
Cheung said 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.
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Woodward has never been a real journalist. Since the so-called Watergate scandal in the 70s, which we now know was likely linked to US intelligence agencies and their desire to kick Republican Pres. Richard Nixon out of office, Woodward has devoted his life to defaming politicians he doesn't like. Every book he's written about Trump follows the same pattern, and the American people deserve to know this before they waste their money on it.