Former President Donald Trump sent COVID testing devices to Russian President Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic, the Kremlin claimed.
“No, that’s not true,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said when asked if Trump and Putin had spoken on the phone.Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Bloomberg News in a written statement that “we also sent equipment at the beginning of the pandemic.” The Kremlin did not respond to NBC News' request for comment.
The story was initially reported in “War,” a new book by veteran Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward, which reports on Trump and testing devices to Putin when the machines were in short supply. NBC News has not been able to independently verify this.Trump also denied the reporting in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl. “He’s a storyteller. A bad one. And he’s lost his marbles,” Trump said of Woodward.
In a separate statement to Bloomberg, Trump's re-election team accused the journalist of bias and said “none of these made up stories by Bob Woodward are true.”Trump has repeatedly said he could settle the war between Russia and Ukraine in one day if he’s elected president again. But when he was asked about this claim in July, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia told reporters that “the Ukrainian crisis cannot be solved in one day.
The Republican nominee said last month that his relationship with Putin is “very good.” He said the same of his ties to Ukrainian President As a private citizen, Trump would need the sitting president’s express permission to negotiate on behalf of the U.S. government. Woodward says in the book that senior adviser Jason Miller told him in July that he was “not aware” of any conversations between Trump and Putin, but should they wish to speak, “they’d know how to get in touch with each other.”
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