{"id":112272,"date":"2024-10-09T20:37:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112272"},"modified":"2024-10-09T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:37:51","slug":"woodward-book-reveals-trumps-calls-with-putin-and-bidens-remarks-about-obama-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112272","title":{"rendered":"Woodward book reveals Trump&#8217;s calls with Putin and Biden&#8217;s remarks about Obama, Netanyahu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> has had as many as seven private phone calls with <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/vladimir-putin\">Vladimir Putin<\/a><\/span> since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book, \u201cWar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The famed Watergate reporter also details President Joe Biden\u2019s frustrations with Israeli Prime Minister <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/benjamin-netanyahu\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a><\/span> and Saudi Crown Prince <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mohammad-bin-salman-bin-abdulaziz-al-saud\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a><\/span> \u2018s assortment of burner phones. The Associated Press obtained an early copy of the book, which is due out next week.<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied the reporting, telling ABC News\u2019 Jonathan Karl that Woodward is \u201ca storyteller. A bad one. And he\u2019s lost his marbles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump had previously spoken to Woodward for the journalist\u2019s 2021 book, \u201cRage.\u201d Trump later sued over it, claiming Woodward never had permission to publicly release recordings of their interviews for the book. The publisher and Woodward denied his allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Here is more from the new book:<\/p>\n<h2>Trump has had multiple calls with Putin since his White House term ended<\/h2>\n<p>Woodward reports that Trump asked an aide to leave his office at his Florida resort, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mar-a-lago\">Mar-a-Lago<\/a><\/span>, so that the former president could have a private call with Putin in early 2024. The aide, whom Woodward doesn\u2019t name, said there have been multiple calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left office, perhaps as many as seven, according to the book, though it does not detail what they discussed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-4c0000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-medium-nocrop\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/261eb27\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5177x3452+0+0\/resize\/800x533!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fea%2Fa9%2F098d312da9da8fa7adcb6ea1a067%2F61b3c2639b8d482e9b91d715aa55a838 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summit of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024. (Sergei Ilnitsky\/Pool Photo via AP)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Trump senior adviser and longtime aide Jason Miller told Woodward that he had not heard Trump was having calls with Putin and said, \u201cI\u2019d push back on that.\u201d But Miller also said, according to the book, \u201cI\u2019m sure they\u2019d know how to get in touch with each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steven Cheung, Trump\u2019s communications director, said none of the stories in Woodward\u2019s books are true. In a statement on Tuesday, he called them \u201cthe work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the reporting about the calls was \u201cnot true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s relationship with Putin has been scrutinized since his 2016 campaign for president, when he memorably called on Russia to find and make public missing emails deleted by <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/clinton\">Hillary Clinton<\/a><\/span>, his Democratic opponent. \u201cRussia, if you\u2019re listening, I hope you\u2019re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. intelligence agencies later determined that Russia had meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump, though an investigation by special counsel <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/robert-mueller\">Robert Mueller<\/a><\/span> found <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/f109a539220b41218860fa68176a9c98\">no conspiracy<\/a><\/span> between the Trump team and Russia. In 2018, Trump publicly questioned that finding following an in-person meeting with Putin in Helsinki.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, Trump has criticized U.S. support for Ukraine as it fights off Russia\u2019s invasion. He has <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-ukraine-putin-zelenskyy-0f4d539aa73a943474d779716e5fe42a\">said Ukraine should have made concessions<\/a><\/span> to Putin before Russia invaded in 2022. He also previously touted his good relationship with Putin and called the Russian leader \u201cpretty smart\u201d for invading Ukraine.<\/p>\n<h2>Trump sent COVID-19 test machines to Putin for his personal use<\/h2>\n<p>Woodward reports that Trump sent Putin COVID-19 test machines for his personal use as the virus began spreading in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Putin told Trump not to tell anyone because people would be mad at Trump over it, but Trump said he didn\u2019t care if anyone knew, according to the book. Trump ended up agreeing not to tell anyone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about the 2024 Election Today's news: Follow live updates from the campaign trail from the AP. Ground Game: Sign up for AP's weekly politics newsletter to get it in your inbox every Monday. AP's Role: The Associated Press is the most trusted source of information on election night, with a history of accuracy dating to 1848. Learn more.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about the 2024 Election<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The book doesn\u2019t specify when the machines were sent but describes it as being when the virus spread rapidly through Russia. It was previously reported by The Associated Press and other agencies that Trump\u2019s administration in May 2020 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-ap-top-news-mi-state-wire-politics-virus-outbreak-e08621567fd8758c89b0c5aed5ac5d72\">sent<\/a><\/span> ventilators and other equipment to several countries, including Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no secret shipments. The pandemic was starting back then,\u201d Peskov said Wednesday via a messaging app. \u201cMany countries were exchanging equipment. We sent ventilators. Testers came from America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Kamala Harris, in an interview Tuesday with radio host Howard Stern, accused Trump of giving the machines to a \u201cmurderous dictator\u201d at a time when \u201ceveryone was scrambling\u201d to get tests. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis person who wants to be president again, who secretly is helping out an an adversary while the American people are dying by the hundreds every day,\u201d said Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Biden highlighted the report during a stop in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou see what came out today?\u201d Biden said at a fundraiser for Sen. Bob Casey. \u201cSo he calls his good friend Putin \u2014 not a joke \u2014 and makes sure he had the tests. He had the tests.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Biden\u2019s anger at Netanyahu has boiled over in private<\/h2>\n<p>The book also details Biden\u2019s complicated relationship with Netanyahu as well as private moments when the president has been fed up with him over the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\" data-align-right=\"\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"ImageEnhancement\">\n<figure class=\"Figure\">\n<p>    <a class=\"AnchorLink\" id=\"image-680000\"\/><\/p>\n<picture data-crop=\"imgEn-small-4x6\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ec24fe6\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1226x1839+766+0\/resize\/228x342!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/f73f230\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1226x1839+766+0\/resize\/456x684!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 2x\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px)\" width=\"228\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/763c570\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1226x1839+766+0\/resize\/228x342!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/9e143b0\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1226x1839+766+0\/resize\/456x684!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 2x\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" width=\"599\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/771059d\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/599x898!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/802b8b4\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 2x\"><source width=\"599\" height=\"898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7efde37\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1e32c20\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 2x\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7efde37\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 1x,https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/1e32c20\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/1198x1796!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e 2x\" width=\"599\" height=\"898\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/7efde37\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/1227x1839+766+0\/resize\/599x898!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F13%2Ffe%2F43bd9c72fb49cfc8051187663914%2Ffbab1789f2ab45a4b605c8806aafb52e\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n<div class=\"Figure-content\">\n<div class=\"Figure-content-text\"><bsp-read-more class=\"ReadMore\" data-more-button-text=\"Read More\" data-less-button-text=\"Read Less\" data-expand=\"ReadMore-expand\" data-limit=\"110\" data-main-class=\"ReadMore\"><figcaption class=\"Figure-caption\">\n<p>In this April 29, 2017, file photo journalist Bob Woodward sits at the head table during the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in Washington. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen, File)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Biden\u2019s \u201cfrustrations and distrust\u201d of Netanyahu \u201cerupted\u201d this past spring, Woodward writes. The president privately unleashed a profanity-laden tirade, calling him a \u201cson of a bitch\u201d and a \u201cbad f\u2014\u2014\u2014 guy,\u201d according to the book. Biden said he felt, in Woodward\u2019s accounting, that Netanyahu \u201chad been lying to him regularly.\u201d With Netanyahu \u201ccontinuing to say he was going to kill every last member of Hamas.\u201d Woodward wrote, \u201cBiden had told him that was impossible, threatening both privately and publicly to withhold offensive U.S. weapons shipment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Netanyahu have long been acquainted, although their relationship has not been known to be close or overly friendly. Last week, Biden said he <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-election-mideast-israel-d9f53ba8c7b3b4db953be020f676274c\">didn\u2019t know whether<\/a><\/span> the Israeli leader was holding up a Mideast peace deal in order to influence the outcome of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the book\u2019s reporting, White House spokesperson Emilie Simons told reporters Tuesday that \u201cThe commitment that we have to the state of Israel is ironclad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Simons, when pressed on the details, said she wouldn\u2019t comment on every anecdote that may come out in reporting. She added of Biden and Netanyahu: \u201cThey have a long-term relationship. They have a very honest and direct relationship, and I don\u2019t have a comment on those specific anecdotes.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Biden criticized Obama\u2019s handling of the Russian invasion of Crimea<\/h2>\n<p>The book details Biden\u2019s criticism late last year of President Barack Obama\u2019s handling of Putin\u2019s earlier invasion of Ukraine, when Russia seized Crimea and a section of the Donbas in 2014, at a time when Biden was serving as the Democrat\u2019s vice president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey f&#8212;&#8211; up in 2014,\u201d Woodward wrote that Biden said to a close friend in December, blaming the lack of action for Putin\u2019s actions in Ukraine. \u201cBarack never took Putin seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden was angry while speaking to the friend and said they \u201cnever should have let Putin just walk in there\u201d in 2014 and that the U.S. \u201cdid nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Biden regrets choosing Garland as attorney general<\/h2>\n<p>Woodward reports Biden was privately furious with Attorney General Merrick Garland for <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-investigation-justice-garland-ad1034e274570d65032f8e4f47c0c8f6\">appointing a special counsel<\/a><\/span> to investigate Biden\u2019s son Hunter in a tax-and-gun prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShould never have picked Garland,\u201d Biden told an associate, according to Woodward. The journalist did not name the associate.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden was <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-gun-trial-federal-charges-delaware-5dd8a9380235c6360a1ddb691ef24a06\">convicted in June<\/a><\/span> on federal gun charges and faces sentencing in federal court in Delaware in December. He <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-tax-trial-justice-department-6873692c030244b450e27826e7097946\">pleaded guilty<\/a><\/span> to federal tax charges in California and is also set to be sentenced in that case in December.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department declined to comment.<\/p>\n<h2>Graham says going to Mar-a-Lago is \u2018a little bit like going to North Korea\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>One of Trump\u2019s longest-term allies, South Carolina Sen. <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/lindsey-graham\">Lindsey Graham<\/a><\/span>, blamed Trump\u2019s ongoing false claims that the 2020 election was rigged to a cult of personality in which the former president\u2019s ensconcement at Mar-a-Lago and circle of aides and advisers \u201cconstantly feed this narrative,\u201d according to the book. <\/p>\n<p>The weekend after Russia invaded Ukraine, Graham was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, which the senator characterized as \u201ca little bit like going to North Korea.\u201d Graham added that \u201ceverybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On politics, Woodward wrote that Graham\u2019s counsel was part of what persuaded Trump to run again for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>In March, during one of his many visits to the Middle East since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, Graham told Woodward that he had been meeting with the Saudi crown prince when Graham suggested they call Trump. From \u201ca bag containing about 50 burner phones,\u201d Prince Mohammed \u201cpulled out one labeled \u2018TRUMP 45.\u2019\u201d On another trip, Woodward wrote, the Saudi leader retrieved another burner phone, \u201cthis time labeled <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/jake-sullivan\">JAKE SULLIVAN<\/a><\/span> \u201d when the men called Biden\u2019s national security adviser.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Price reported from New York. 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