USA, Bob Woodward’s bomb – Orlando Sacchelli’s blog

Maybe he won’t even move a vote, so deep is polarization in the United States. But, without a doubt, the revelations contained in Bob Wooward’s new book (“War”, out October 15) are very strong. And …

USA, Bob Woodward's bomb – Orlando Sacchelli's blog

Maybe he won’t even move a vote, so deep is polarization in the United States. But, without a doubt, the revelations contained in Bob Wooward’s new book (“War”, out October 15) are very strong. And the release of the volume, less than a month before the elections, makes one think of a “time bomb”.

Here’s what Woodward writes, according to the previews of Washington Post. Donald Trump secretly sent the Covid test to Vladimir Putin in 2020. According to the journalist, it was Putin himself, terrified of the virus, who advised Trump not to let anyone know about it: “I don’t want you to tell anyone otherwise people will be angry with you, not with me.”

The relationship between the two continued even after the end of the tycoon’s presidency. According to a source, at the beginning of 2024 the former president sent an aide away from his office, in the Mar-a-Lago residence, to be able to speak on the phone privately with the Russian leader. And there have been seven dialogues between Trump and Putin since the tycoon left the White House in January 2021.

Woodward points the finger at Trump, accusing him of being a worse politician than Richard Nixon, who was forced to resign following the scandal of the Watergate tapes brought to light by Woodward’s investigation together with his colleague Carl Bernstein.

Trump denies everything

Trump’s campaign staff denied the revelations contained in Woodward’s new book. “None of these stories Bob made up
Woodward is true,” said spokesman Steven Cheung. It is a given that Trump will soon make his voice heard.

Biden’s insults to Netanyahu

In Woodward’s book there would also be some background on the very tense, not to say terrible, relations between President Joe Biden and the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. During a heated phone call last April, Biden asked Netanyahu: “What is your strategy?”. The Israeli prime minister explained that it was necessary to enter the last Hamas stronghold in Rafah. But Biden froze him: “Bibi, you don’t have a strategy.” After the IDF entered Rafah, the US president called the Israeli a “fucking liar” and privately said “that son of a… is bad. It’s fucking bad!”. And again: “You know, the perception of Israel around the world is increasingly that of a rogue state, a rogue actor.”