Book claims Trump secretly sent Covid test machine to Putin during shortage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : The book - titled War- also includes a claim that Trump secretly has stayed in touch with Putin since leaving office, according to excerpts cited by US media.
36% : In War, Woodward writes that while the former president was in office, Trump "secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use".
29% : The unnamed aide reportedly said that the two may have spoken a half-dozen times since Trump left the White House in 2021.
28% : The book also examines the long shadow cast by Trump over the foreign conflicts of the past four years and over the bitter US political environment in which they have unfolded, according to the Washington Post.
27% : The Times reported that Mr. Woodward wrote that he could not corroborate the aide's claim, and that other sources it reached out to were unaware of Trump and Putin contacting each other after he left office.
26% : Trump reportedly said: "I don't care.
26% : Fine."The claims have resurfaced questions about the relationship between Trump and Putin just weeks before the 05 November election.
26% : The former president has been accused in the past of colluding with Russia to interfere with US elections, though a probe by the Department of Justice found no evidence of this and reached no conclusion as to whether Trump had obstructed the inquiry.
24% : "I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me," Putin reportedly told Trump, according to the book cited by the Times.
13% : The report adds that Putin had asked Trump not to publicly share that he had sent him the tests, fearful that it would damage Trump's reputation.
5% : Calling Woodward "demented" and "deranged", Trump campaign spokesperson said: "Woodward is an angry little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously."Trump had previously spoken to Woodward for the journalist's 2021 book - titled Rage.

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