Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a domestic shortage at the height of the pandemic in 2020, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing its associate editor Bob Woodward’s upcoming book.
Putin, a known germophobe who was widely said to have taken extra precautionary measures including extended self-isolation during the pandemic, reportedly accepted Trump’s tests but urged him to avoid going public about them.
“I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me,” Putin was quoted as saying to Trump at the time.
It’d be great if this was reported on while it was happening, instead of being sat on to get a juicy book deal.
Out of all the BS about this orange baby flooding our collective intakes every single second of every single day, this bit of “light treason” coming to light earlier might not have been as impactful as it could be when the election draws nigh.
Hopefully the Harris campaign seizes on this and beats him like a pinata with it for the next month. American Presidents should not provide aid and succor to their geopolitical enemies.
It’s grifters all the way down.