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Woodward book reveals Trump's calls with Putin and Biden's private remarks on Obama and Netanyahu

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Woodward reports that Trump sent Putin COVID-19 test machines for his personal use as the virus began spreading in 2020.

This was when these tests were difficult to get for anyone. This would have been a scandal at the time.

Putin told Trump not to tell anyone because people would be mad at Trump over it, but Trump said he didn’t care if anyone knew, according to the book. Trump ended up agreeing not to tell anyone.

Putin is savvy enough to see how this looks. No wonder Trump is weak in front of Putin and won't condemn Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Sad.

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Trump making secret calls to Putin? Who's surprised?! It would have been more surprising if Trump hadn't been calling him since he lost. Trump loves Putin.

Trump is Putin's lapdog.

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Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, denied the accounts in the book. “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,” Cheung said in a statement.

Thanks for your opinion former UFC fighter Steven Cheung, probably a sufferer of CTE along with some other prominent Trump supporters.

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“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,” Cheung said

The Cheung doth protest too much, methinks.

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Bob Woodward, ROFL!

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Bob Woodward, ROFL!

Steven Cheung, ROFL!

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Yes, nothing says patriotism like providing America's enemies special gifts under the radar.

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Is anyone surprised that the wannabe dictator who openly sides with the Russian government over his own intelligence agencies is close with Putin? I'm certainly not.

What do you think they talk about? Trump's Moscow hotel deal? Maybe a plan to build some Mickey mouse roach motels in Dombass? The weather? Trump and his fan base are just so pathetic.

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Graham was with Trump at Mar-a-Lago, which the senator characterized as “a little bit like going to North Korea.” Graham added that “everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.”

That's easily verifiable.

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Steven Cheung, ROFL!

Who?

Yes, nothing says patriotism like providing America's enemies special gifts under the radar.

Who could forget?

https://x.com/natashasrdoc/status/1838265926472384922?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

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bass4funkToday  07:12 am JST

Bob Woodward, ROFL!

You mean the guy who revealed embarrassment after embarrassment from no self control Trump? Even Biden's criticism of Obama is no big deal because it is also Trump's failure.

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bass4funkToday  07:27 am JST

Who could forget?

https://x.com/natashasrdoc/status/1838265926472384922?s=46&t=YGWP_lcRZjddiWlx4QxURQ

No clear promise made and every single one of Dump's conversations with Putin were off the record.

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bass4funk

Bob Woodward, ROFL!

Watergate, anyone? One of the most influential journalists in American politics.

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Steven Cheung, ROFL!

Who?

Actually reading the article would help.

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Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

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You mean the guy who revealed embarrassment after embarrassment from no self control Trump? Even Biden's criticism of Obama is no big deal because it is also Trump's failure.

So you’re saying all this is no big deal then, it’s just this Woodward’s criticism?

No clear promise made and every single one of Dump's conversations with Putin were off the record.

I see, so let’s excuse Barry and Medvedev. Lol

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Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

There are many ways to serve your country, being President is one, being a police officer or Fire fighter etc.

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bass4funk

Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

There are many ways to serve your country, being President is one, being a police officer or Fire fighter etc.

Serving your country means military service. Back in 1965, Trump opted out because of his bone spares.

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How did he confirm that? Somebody eavesdropping on Trump?

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I see, so let’s excuse Barry and Medvedev. Lol

Yes, let's.

It's also important to note that Obama was president, and Trump isn't president now.

He also lied about plans to build a tower in Moscow.

Trump will sell his own country down the river for a roach motel in Moscow.

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Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

Trump served his country as President, an honor that most people could never attain

Serving your country means military service.

Semantics, educator, military, the nation, law enforcement, it’s all the same.

Back in 1965, Trump opted out because of his bone spares.

But he served the nation as leader of the most powerful nation on the planet, he made up for that.

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Hercolobus

How did he confirm that? Somebody eavesdropping on Trump?

Yes. One of his aides. It's in the article.

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Actually reading the article would help.

Still wouldn’t know.

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Steven Cheung, ROFL!

Who?

Actually reading the article would help.

being even moderately politically literate would also be helpful. The guy is quoted every day as the campaign spokesman.

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Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

There are many ways to serve your country, being President is one, being a police officer or Fire fighter etc.

Sadly, Trump never did anything more than cosplay any of these things.

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It's also clear that along with the Covid testing machines, Trump also sent Putin reams of stolen classified secrets from his Mar a Largo stash.

Putin is playing Traitor Trump and his dimwitted followers like a fiddle. He's somehow conned them into thinking he's an ally of America. He's not, he loathes it.

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Woodward lays more foundation, as if any more were needed, that Trump is a Russian asset influenced by soothing plays to his tissue-thin ego from the KGB and its successor the FSB.

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Actually reading the article would help.

Still wouldn’t know.

Ah, a conditional phrase. Thanks for confirming what we already know.

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Steven Cheung, ROFL!

Donal Trump ROFL, MAGA LMAO.

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being even moderately politically literate would also be helpful. The guy is quoted every day as the campaign spokesman.

Yeah, I really don’t think you have room to talk on this point. ROFL!

Sadly, Trump never did anything more than cosplay any of these things.

Not as President.

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Still wouldn’t know.

Yes you would.

Anyone who read the article would know Cheung is Trump's communications director:

Steven Cheung, Trump's communications director, denied the accounts in the book.

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bass4funk

Unlike Donald Trump Bob Woodward served his country 1965-70. Winner of numerous awards.

Trump served his country as President, an honor that most people could never attain

Like Obama and Biden. Nice to see your support for those.

Serving your country means military service.

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Serving your country means military service. 

Semantics, educator, military, the nation, law enforcement, it’s all the same.

So what do you call leaving your country and choosing to live in another one? Is it like dodging the draft?

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Yes you would. 

No, I wouldn’t.

Anyone who read the article would know Cheung is Trump's communications director:

I see

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Turns out that “Russia, Russia, Russia” are 3 answers to the following questions:

Who recruited Trump as an asset in 1987 on his first trip to Moscow?

Who has compromat on Trump?

Who’s Trump’s daddy?

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Like Obama and Biden. Nice to see your support for those.

They served, I just don’t support them

Serving your country means military service.

That as well.

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I just read that CNN article. Pretty fascinating.

I mean it goes without saying that Trump's yes-men and fangirls won't care (or this will actually improve their image of him even more), but still a really good read. Biden comes off very different to his generally avuncular public facade too, lots of cursing. Which makes me think even more of him.

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Turns out that “Russia, Russia, Russia” are 3 answers to the following questions:

Who recruited Trump as an asset in 1987 on his first trip to Moscow?

Who has compromat on Trump?

Who’s Trump’s daddy?

According to Mueller, a 2 year investigation 500 witnesses and 500 subpoenas and 150 agents found nothing. The Russian collusion delusion was a dud

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According to Mueller, a 2 year investigation 500 witnesses and 500 subpoenas and 150 agents found nothing.

That is not what Mueller found. Nice try.

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According to Mueller, a 2 year investigation 500 witnesses and 500 subpoenas and 150 agents found nothing. The Russian collusion delusion was a dud

What Muller actually found was no less than 6 chargeable counts of obstruction of justice that Don the con was saved from by the guidance of the ÖLÇ.

In addition it found that Russia interfered with the election in support of Trump and that Trump knew about it and passively supported it.

The latter was reinforced by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s report, chaired by Marco Rubio, saying the same thing.

So, Trump is a Russian stooge and every non-cultist knows it.

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So what do you call leaving your country and choosing to live in another one?

Dunno, smart?

‘Patriotic’ expats are as interesting as that one guy who want stop talking about his ex wife.

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Another best seller. Will sell more copies than Trump's Bible.

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That is not what Mueller found. Nice try.

That is what he found, and that’s why they couldn’t get him. Shucks!!!

Patriotic’ expats are as interesting as that one guy who want stop talking about his ex wife.

And? So libs outside the U.S. get to decide who’s a patriot and who’s not???? lol!

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What Muller actually found was no less than 6 chargeable counts of obstruction of justice that Don the con was saved from by the guidance of the ÖLÇ. 

In addition it found that Russia interfered with the election in support of Trump and that Trump knew about it and passively supported it.

The latter was reinforced by the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee’s report, chaired by Marco Rubio, saying the same thing. 

So, Trump is a Russian stooge and every non-cultist knows it.

So in other words, nothing.

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So in other words, nothing.

So in other words, I read nothing, so I know nothing.

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Odd that Bob Woodward cannot identify this mysterious “Trump aide” he supposedly heard all this supposedly super secret stuff from.

does this person happen to have a name?

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Jupiter's and the Republican Party's fondness for the Russian dictator and their MAGA philosophy are true to Republican form. In the late 1930s the America First faction of the very same Republican party shared a deep fondness for Adolf Hitler, calling him a "stabilizing force" in Europe even as he invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland and annexed Austria, while the Republicans of the time excoriated Winston Churchill as a dangerous war monger. Back then non other than Charles Lindburg and a loudmouthed Catholic priest with a radio show, "Father" Joe Coughlin were their vocal spokesflunkies. This was the same party that a decade earlier pushed through immigration restrictions on southern Europeans, mainly Italians and Greeks, based on bogus scientific studies "proving" their supposed intellectual and moral inferiority.

What did Mark Twain say, history doesn't repeat itself but it certainly does rhyme. Too many people don't know anything beyond their immediate living memory. Crack a history book folks. The situation in Europe and the US today is very much like 1938 and if the Repubes repeat their past we are guaranteed WWIII. Guarandamteed.

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You're in denial that Trump could do any wrong, so your reaction is not a surprise to anyone. Actually this is pretty mild stuff he says about Trump. You would probably send Putin a care package too if you could manage it.

I do not.

an “unnamed” Trump aide just casually talks to Bob Woodward about all this?

hey Bob, my boss just got off the phone with Pootie, but I trust you won’t put that in your book, please.

with no name, this could be the “he grabbed the wheeeeel” fraudster, if it ever was even said at all.

No, he just needed to throw some Trump into his book slamming Biden to give the left something to use to deflect about all the horrific and totally true Biden dirt. He still wants to go to the lefty parties.

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read Bob’s book. He tells you all about biden’s vulgarity and how his private and completely demeaning comments about others don’t match his good ole Joe public persona.

At least he does it in private rather than in public. Y'know, like mocking a disabled journalist, calling other journalists "fake news" to their faces (in front of their peers), slandering Haitian-Americans by accusing them, during a presidential debate, without any proof, of eating cats and dogs...

I liked reading about Biden's cussing. Makes him easy to relate too. I mean if you had to spend any time at all dealing with Trump, your language would probably be equally spicy. (That's the generic "you", and is not addressed to the posters here who would be on their knees in front of him the moment they met him).

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Edit: easy to relate TO, before anyone picks up on a typo to try and deflect from what I wrote.

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Actually I think most people would agree with Biden's comments about Putin, Bibi and others who he seems to like to curse about.

read Bob’s book. He tells you all about biden’s vulgarity and how his private and completely demeaning comments about others don’t match his good ole Joe public persona.

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Trump served his country as President

Yes, but that country was Russia.

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Anything money related moving in Trump direction. Polymarket, DJT stock.

anything polling is less of a “lead” than ever for her.

kamala desperately doing more interviews then ever and failing more and more. Interviews getting less supportive, like they know she gonna lose so they need to pivot.

another Bob Woodward book right before an election again changes nothing. But man, Biden is super vulgar huh? Shocking!

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Crazy, I know but world leaders should be in communication, especially during times of crisis. Maybe Bibi will pick up when Joe phones next time. We can only hope.

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Biden said Barack Obama is ultimately responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to his lack of action in 2014.

agreed?

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And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.

Either Trump is a geneticist or there is come racism going on here.

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That book sounds like a lot hearsay from a partisan activist. It is all about speculation, unnamed sources, suggestion. Clearly timed to influence the election, but at this point I doubt that anyone on either side is going to change their mind.

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And we got a lot of bad genes in our country right now.

Either Trump is a geneticist or there is come racism going on here.

Or he's talking about himself.

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Yes, but that country was Russia.

I don’t care what the left thinks, that’s not in the history books, Wikipedia or reality. Personal feelings don’t matter.

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That book sounds like a lot hearsay from a partisan activist

Given that Woodward is one of the men whose investigations brought down a republican president, that argument doesn't really hold much water.

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That book sounds like a lot hearsay from a partisan activist. It is all about speculation, unnamed sources, suggestion. Clearly timed to influence the election, but at this point I doubt that anyone on either side is going to change their mind.

From what I heard it always is with that guy.

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one of the men whose investigations brought down a republican president,

in other words, a partisan activist.

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Odd that Bob Woodward cannot identify this mysterious “Trump aide” he supposedly heard all this supposedly super secret stuff from.

Probably because Trump's lunatic supporters would threaten them with death.

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Biden said Barack Obama is ultimately responsible for the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to his lack of action in 2014.

But you agree with Obama's lack of action. Agreed?

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Zaphod

That book sounds like a lot hearsay from a partisan activist.

No, it's one of Trump's aides.

It is all about speculation, unnamed sources, suggestion.

Bob Woodward is a respected journalist. He broke the Watergate scandal.

Sounds like you want to say it didn't happen.

Clearly timed to influence the election, but at this point I doubt that anyone on either side is going to change their mind.

Agree on the timing. It will likely influence some Republican's. Trump has only about 80% support among Republicans, which reflects the primaries. If these people vote for Harris in battleground states, Trump is done.

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BlacklabelToday  11:21 am JST

one of the men whose investigations brought down a republican president,

in other words, a partisan activist.

In your books, anyone who stops short of fellating Trump is a "partisan activist".

Bob Woodward is a journalist - notably a profession to which Trump is hostile (not hard to see why; Trump's target voters aren't exactly readers). Journalists research things and write articles, books, etc. based on their findings. No journalist is perfectly neutral, but if Nixon had really been innocent of what the Watergate investigations turned up, do you think he would have fallen on his sword?

Course if Nixon had been a democrat, you'd be kissing Woodward's boots.

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Where did you hear that it was deleted?

deleted from this article posted here. Not even mentioned, nor any of the Kamala stuff CNN had.

one of your homies claimed nothing about Kamala in the book. Yet in the book, Kamala says Biden likes her only cause she is vulgar like him.

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deleted from this article posted here. Not even mentioned, nor any of the Kamala stuff CNN had.

I think "deleted" is pushing it. "Not included", sure. It's a summary of the CNN article. It's not the whole thing. Anyone can access and read the CNN article to get the full story. I mean, I did. I found it pretty interesting reading.

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Yet in the book, Kamala says Biden likes her only cause she is vulgar like him.

Yes. Kamala said that Biden only likes him because is vulgar like him. That's exactly what she said.

"Honk honk," my clown car's arrived. gtg.

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