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Margaret Sullivan

Will a disturbing scoop about Trump and Putin affect Trump’s electoral chances?

two men looking away from each other
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Photograph: Karolina Maliszewska/Alamy

The news from Bob Woodward’s latest book is startling.

The legendary Washington Post journalist has reported that as the Covid pandemic raged in 2020, with supplies of tests scarce in the United States, Donald Trump, then president, secretly sent test equipment to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, for his personal use. Meanwhile, in his own country, Trump downplayed – even mocked – the need for Americans to test.

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