Kremlin confirms Trump sent Russia Covid-19 tests, after former president denied Bob Woodward claim

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Kremlin confirms Trump sent Russia Covid-19 tests, after former president denied Bob Woodward claim


https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/11/europe/kremlin-confirms-trump-covid-tests-intl/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc


By Rob Picheta and Anna Chernova, CNN

Updated 12:01 PM EDT, Fri October 11, 2024


Russia has confirmed that Donald Trump sent the Kremlin sample Covid-19 tests in the early days of the pandemic, after revelations in veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s new book raised further questions about the former US president’s relationship with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.

The Trump administration “sent us several samples of test kits,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday, broadly supporting Woodward’s claim. His intervention comes after Trump denied the claims, telling ABC News they were “false.”

Legendary reporter Woodward wrote in “War” that Trump “secretly sent Putin a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines for his personal use.”


“Please don’t tell anybody you sent these to me,” Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward. “I don’t care,” Trump replied. “Fine.”

“No, no,” Putin said. “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don’t care about me.”

Peskov did not confirm whether or not those tests were specifically for Putin’s own use, as Woodward writes. ...................

[CrispyQ]

1. Am I the only one who wonders why Putin would reveal this?

Is he also suffering from Trump fatigue? Maybe the memory of sitting next to that stinky pile of shit vs VP Harris, who is by any standard beautiful, is more than Putin could handle. IDK, but it seems strange to me that he didn't just keep quiet. ???

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2. the Kremlin claim involves a 'mutual' early exchange of testing equipment

But, also - and probably of more relevance - denies further Woodward claims about continuing contacts between Trump and Putin.

And that - could possibly be an important point for the Russians.

https://www.politico.eu/article/kremlin-confirms-donald-trump-covid-test-vladimir-putin-president-russia-us-abbott-point/

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3. Thanks for the additional info. -nt