Woodward's bombshell book pulls back the curtain on Biden's tempestuous approach to Israel, Trump's affinity for Putin - Washington Examiner

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50% : Discussion of New Data from a Five-Wave Survey," with Samuel Rogers, political economist; Balint Madlovics, political scientist/economist and research fellow, CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest; and Marlene Laruelle, research professor of international affairs and political science, George Washington University and director, Illiberalism Studies Program https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/how-is-ukrainian-opinion-changing-as-the-war-grinds-on11 a.m. 1957 E St. NW -- George Washington University Space Policy Institute book discussion: Space Warfare Strategy, Principles and Policy, with author John Klein, SPI professor; Col. William Sanders, U.S. Space Force division chief for strategy, policy and plans; and Peter Hays, SPI professor https://calendar.gwu.edu/event/book-launch-space-warfare-strategy11 a.m. 1789 Massachusetts Ave., NW -- American Enterprise Institute in-person and virtual event: "Xi Jinping's Search for a Lasting Legacy," with Derek Scissors, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Stephen Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation; Dean Cheng, U.S. Institute of Peace; and moderator Bonnie Glaser, German Marshall Fund https://www.aei.org/events/xi-jinpings-search-for-a-lasting-legacy1 p.m. 555 Pennsylvania Ave.
46% : In 2020, Woodward claimed Trump "secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use," and reconstructed a phone call between the two leaders which allegedly went something like this:"Please don't tell anybody you sent these to me," Putin says to which Trump, who replies, "I don't care, fine.""No, no," Putin says.
39% : The book comes out next Tuesday, but the Washington Post and CNN -- who both have Woodward on their payrolls -- have "obtained" advance copies and published excerpts, which allege Trump, after his election defeat, maintained a cozy relationship with Vladimir Putin conducting as many as seven phone conversations with the Russian president, and while he was still president, gifted Putin, who was famously paranoid about Covid, testing equipment at the height of the pandemic.
26% : "Trump denied the exchange ever took place, while in a statement, campaign spokesman Steven Cheung said, "None of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true," and called Woodward an "angry little man" who suffered from a "debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.

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