Trump spoke with Putin at least seven times since leaving White House, Bob Woodward reports

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "Trump himself -- while standing next to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in New York City last month -- has said he has a "very good relationship" with Putin.
51% : "And I think if we win, we're going to get it resolved very quickly," Trump told reporters on September 27.
51% : His latest book also reports that Trump had secretly sent Putin several COVID-19 test machines for his personal use at the height of the pandemic.
45% : Woodward's War -- his fourth book since Trump won in 2016, excerpts of which were published by CNN -- also contains previously unreported details about the former president's relationship with the authoritarian leader, including a moment at Mar-a-Lago where he told a senior aide to leave the room so they could have a "private phone call.
41% : Woodward interviewed Trump at last 19 times between December 2019 and August 2020 for Woodward's Rage, which was published in September 2020.
37% : "I don't care," Trump replied, Woodward writes.
36% : "Please don't tell anybody you sent these to me," Putin told Trump, according to Woodward.
35% : "Attorneys for Woodward have sought to dismiss a nearly $50 million lawsuit from Trump, who has accused the journalist of releasing tapes of their interviews for a separate book without his consent.
35% : Russia and the US did exchange medical equipment at the time, but Putin reportedly told Trump to keep the deployment of testing machines quiet.
34% : Biden's Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines "carefully hedged" when Woodward asked about whether there were any post-presidency calls between Trump and Putin, the famed journalist writes.
23% : Woodward reports that he asked chief Trump aide Jason Miller whether Trump and Putin have spoken since leaving the White House in January 2021, to which Miller replied: "Um, ah, not that, ah, not that I'm aware of.
17% : Woodward's War does not describe their alleged conversations, but the interactions between Trump and Putin have shaped Woodward's reporting that allegations of Trump's corruption have made him the "most reckless and impulsive president in American history and is demonstrating the very same character as a presidential candidate in 2024.
11% : ""According to Trump's aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the White House in 2021," Woodward writes.

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