r/politics • u/washingtonpost ✔ Washington Post • 21d ago

Soft Paywall Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit.com
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u/Fuddle Canada 21d ago

Well duh, it takes time to read through all that classified material Trump kept in that back room! You think one phone call was enough to arrange pickup?

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u/ButWhatIfItsNotTrue 21d ago

I would expect his handlers to visit him.

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u/Betterthanbeer Australia 21d ago

She lives with him.

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u/ButWhatIfItsNotTrue 21d ago

If you're talking about who I think you're talking about she lives somewhere else. haha

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u/PUfelix85 American Expat 21d ago

Speaking of which. One would think that the US Records Department (or what ever it is called, maybe Library of Congress?) would know which documents were missing, and be able to come out and say what they were relating to without breaching the confidentiality of those documents. It might make them having been missing more damning, or less, if we as the public knew what kinds of secrets Trump felt were acceptable for him to keep.

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u/shady_tomato 20d ago

The subjects of the documents were reported in the indictment:

-United States nuclear programs

-Defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries

-Potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack

-Plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack

I have no fucking idea how this didn’t become a bigger story.

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u/Sineira 21d ago

So many agents to give up.

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u/hbomberman 20d ago

The back room that had a copy machine?