Harris slams Trump over Woodward’s Putin COVID-19 tests claim
Vice President Harris criticized former President Trump on Tuesday over journalist Bob Woodward's report that Trump sent COVID-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Trump has denied the report by Woodward, the Watergate journalist who wrote in a new book that Trump sent Putin the tests for his personal use, and that the Kremlin leader told the U.S. president not to tell anyone.
The Washington Post first reported the details, citing Woodward’s new book, “War.”
“People in America were struggling to get tests, and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?” Harris said in an interview with Howard Stern on SiriusXM, when asked for her reaction to the news.
“That is just the most recent stark example of who Trump is, that he secretly sent COVID test kits for the personal use of Putin of Russia, an adversary to the United States, when he was talking about, 'Americans should be putting bleach in their blood.' Think about what this is.”
Trump’s campaign has vehemently denied the story.
“None of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Steven Cheung, Trump campaign communications director, wrote in a statement.
“President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue,” added Cheung, who included a number of other insults about Woodward.
The new book outlines that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin and that they have had multiple phone calls since Trump left office, citing the former president’s aides, CNN reported.
Woodward reportedly said in the book that Trump told a senior aide to leave the room at Mar-a-Lago so he could talk to Putin.
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