'That son of a bitch': New Woodward book reveals candid behind-the-scenes conversations of Biden, Trump, Harris and Putin | CNN Politics

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "Everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.
51% : "Woodward writes that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin after leaving office.
46% : In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so "he could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
43% : "I don't care," Trump replied.
42% : In 2020, Woodward writes, Trump had "secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.
41% : "Hey, let's call Trump," Graham said to MBS while visiting with the Saudi leader in March.
36% : "Please don't tell anybody you sent these to me," Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward.
35% : But Putin -- who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid -- told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports.
34% : Trump said to Graham a few days later, "as if it had shown maximum restraint," Woodward writes.
31% : Woodward asked Trump aide Jason Miller whether Trump and Putin had spoken since he left the White House.
31% : "Graham repeatedly urged Trump to move on from the 2020 election, telling him if he is reelected, "then January 6 won't be your obituary.
29% : What Trump secretly sent to PutinThe book also contains new details about Trump's relationship with the Russian president.
27% : "You've got a problem with moderate women," Graham told Trump after the midterms.
18% : "The South Carolina Republican is quoted as saying Biden "won fair and square" but that Trump "doesn't like to hear that."
13% : "- Citing a Trump aide, Woodward reports that there have been "maybe as many as seven" calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left the White House in 2021.
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.
5% : 'Trump is becoming more erratic'Woodward also writes about Trump's decision to run for president again, including a series of conversations with his ally and golfing buddy, Sen. Lindsey Graham.
1% : As Trump framed his presidential campaign around fear, Woodward writes that Graham said of the former president: "Trump is becoming more erratic.
0% : "'Should never have picked Garland'The book also documents Biden's personal and political struggles, including what Biden calls Trump in private, a surprising phone call from former President George W. Bush, Biden's frustration with Obama and regrets about his selection of his attorney general Merrick Garland.

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