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Trump secretly sent Putin Covid testing machines, report says<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n

Bob Woodward\u2019s forthcoming book \u201cWar\u201d also reveals that Donald Trump<\/strong> kept in touch with Vladimir Putin<\/strong> after his presidency ended, CNN reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Citing an aide to the former president, Woodward writes that there have been \u201cmaybe as many as seven\u201d calls between the two since Trump left the White House.<\/p>\n

Woodward also uncovers details of a moment from the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Trump secretly sent Putin testing machines:<\/p>\n

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<\/svg>But Putin \u2014 who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid \u2014 told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease don\u2019t tell anybody you sent these to me,\u201d Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, no,\u201d Putin said. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don\u2019t care about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Woodward writes that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin after leaving office.<\/p>\n

In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so \u201che could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Joe Biden<\/strong> issued a dire warning about the severity of Hurricane Milton<\/a>, saying it could pose a historic threat to Florida.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe current path is terminated \u2026 in the Tampa Bay area and cuts directly across the state, east to west, all the way across the state, with the potential for this storm to both enter Florida as a hurricane and leave Florida as a hurricane on the Atlantic coast,\u201d Biden said at the White House.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century, and God willing, it won\u2019t be but that\u2019s what it\u2019s looking like right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He also added that he had spoken to Ron DeSantis<\/strong>, the Republican governor of Florida who yesterday refused a call from Kamala Harris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe governor of Florida has been cooperative. He said he\u2019s gotten all that he needs. I talked to him again yesterday, and \u2026 I said, \u2018No, you\u2019re doing a great job. It\u2019s being all being done,\u2019\u201d Biden said, adding he gave DeSantis his personal phone number.<\/p>\n

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The president also said he would find another time to travel to Germany and Angola, two trips he postponed as the storm approached.<\/p>\n

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Floridians living in parts of the state where Hurricane Milton<\/a> is expected to strike should follow recommendations to evacuate, Kamala Harris<\/strong> said in her interview on The View.<\/p>\n

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She also downplayed the significance of Republican Florida governor Ron DeSantis<\/strong>\u2019s decision yesterday not to take a call from her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis hurricane coming to Florida is \u2026 predicted to be historic in terms of how serious and devastating it will be. And I urge every and anybody who is watching or has family members in that area, please, please, take seriously your local officials admonition to you. If they\u2019re telling you to evacuate, get your stuff and go,\u201d the vice-president said.<\/p>\n

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She also remarked on DeSantis\u2019s decision not to speak with her yesterday:<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why I called the governor about what Florida has received in terms of impact. We have to have an agreement that, at some point, we all need to work together to combine resources, especially federal, state and local resources around these kinds of disasters. And I think it\u2019s a shame that that hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n

n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Harris added: \u201cWhen I\u2019m president, I will continue to call him to see what he needs for help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kamala Harris <\/strong>is on the set of long-running talk show the View to give a live interview, her first since becoming the Democratic nominee for president.<\/p>\n

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Her campaign says the vice-president will elaborate on her policies to support working families afford care for children and older adults. It\u2019s a friendly audience \u2013 co-host Whoopi Goldberg<\/strong> introduced Harris as \u201cthe next president of the United States\u201d. Harris strode out in a gray suit to Beyonce\u2019s \u201cFreedom\u201d.<\/p>\n

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We will let you know if she makes news.<\/p>\n

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Amid reports that Bob Woodward<\/strong>\u2019s forthcoming book would reveal that Donald Trump<\/strong> called Putin as many as seven times after leaving office and secretly sent him Covid-19 testing machines during the pandemic in 2020, the former president\u2019s campaign has issued a flurry of personal attacks against the veteran investigative journalist.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, the campaign\u2019s communications director Steven Cheung<\/strong> also said Woodward\u2019s reporting was false:<\/p>\n

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n <\/p>\n

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. Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue. Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he\u2019s slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall a boring person with no personality.<\/p>\n

n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Joe Biden<\/strong> has put on hold his planned travel to Germany and Angola \u2013 which would have been the first visit by an American president to sub-Saharan Africa in nine years \u2013 to deal with Hurricane Milton\u2019s expected arrival on the Florida coast, the White House said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGiven the projected trajectory and strength of Hurricane Milton, President Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola in order to oversee preparations for and the response to Hurricane Milton, in addition to the ongoing response to the impacts of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast,\u201d White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n

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Milton was upgraded yesterday to a category 5 hurricane, and is set to strike Florida\u2019s vulnerable Tampa area. Here\u2019s more on the preparations for the storm\u2019s arrival, just weeks after Hurricane Helene ravaged a swath of the southeastern United States:<\/p>\n

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Kamala Harris<\/strong> is leading Donald Trump <\/strong>in Michigan, one of seven battleground states expected to decide the election, The Detroit News and WDIV-TV find in a new poll<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Among 600 likely voters surveyed over four days from 1 October, 46.8% say they would support Harris, and 44.2% are backing Trump. That gives the vice-president a lead of 2.6 percentage points, within the poll\u2019s four-percentage-point margin of error.<\/p>\n

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While it\u2019s certainly not determinative of who will win the state, this poll is good news for Harris for a couple of reasons. The first is that it gives Harris the strongest lead she or Joe Biden<\/strong> has had all year, and comes after absentee voting began in Michigan on 26 September.<\/p>\n

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n <\/p>\n

In the most recent similar poll from The News and WDIV-TV, conducted in late August, Trump was beating Harris by 1.2 percentage points, 44.7%-43.5%. In late July, Harris had a narrow lead of 0.3 points, 41.6%-41.3%. And in January, Trump was ahead of Biden by 8.2 points, 46.8%-38.6%.<\/p>\n

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The data also indicates that the vice-president may have an avenue to overcome defections from Michigan\u2019s Muslim and Arab American community over the Biden administration\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s invasion of Gaza. Those communities are particularly large in Michigan, and many voters from those groups, which have leaned Democratic in previous elections, say they will not back Harris because of her involvement with Biden\u2019s military support to Israel.<\/p>\n

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After two women made allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump<\/strong>\u2019s <\/strong>second nominee to the supreme court, Brett Kavanaugh<\/strong>, the then-president publicly said that he wanted the FBI to investigate those and any other claims against him.<\/p>\n

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But the Washington Post reports<\/a> today that a forthcoming report from Democratic senator Sheldon Whitehouse<\/strong> finds the FBI did not have authorization to fullly investigate the allegations, and that messages phoned into the agency\u2019s tip line about Kavanaugh were sent directly to the White House, and never acted upon.<\/p>\n

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The Senate, which was controlled at the time by the GOP, wound up confirming Kavanaugh, who has since become part of the court\u2019s conservative supermajority, supporting decisions to overturn Roe v Wade and grant Donald Trump<\/strong> immunity.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s more on the report, from the Post:<\/p>\n

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n <\/p>\n

The president\u2019s comments came as a surprise to the FBI, according to a new report from a Democratic senator based on previously undisclosed correspondence between the agency and the White House. FBI officials \u2014 directed to conduct a very limited inquiry in a week\u2019s time \u2014 requested \u201cadditional guidance\u201d from the White House, citing the public remarks by Trump and other officials describing a freewheeling investigation. But the White House never authorized the agency to independently probe the sexual misconduct allegations, which Kavanaugh staunchly denied.<\/p>\n

n <\/p>\n

The report, which was produced by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a Judiciary Committee member and leading critic of the Kavanaugh confirmation, and <\/strong>provided to The Washington Post ahead of a public release <\/strong>on Tuesday, provides additional evidence of the tight control exercised by the White House over the FBI investigation \u2014 despite Trump\u2019s claims to the contrary.<\/p>\n

n <\/p>\n

The report found that <\/strong>messages to the FBI tip line regarding Kavanaugh were forwarded directly to the White House and never probed, and that the FBI had no written protocols for the supplemental background investigation ordered by the White House. It notes that <\/strong>the FBI was instructed by the White House to talk to 10 potential witnesses and was not given the leeway to pursue corroborating evidence \u2014 the absence of which was cited by senators as they narrowly voted to confirm Kavanaugh, marking a major triumph for the conservative movement and locking in a right-leaning majority that would later overturn the constitutional right to abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

n <\/p>\n

Trump ordered the additional inquiry following nationally televised testimony by Christine Blasey Ford that Kavanaugh had groped her and tried to take off her clothes more than three decades earlier, when they were in high school at a party in suburban Maryland. Another accuser, Deborah Ramirez, had come forward in a New Yorker story, saying Kavanaugh had shoved his penis into her face during a dorm party when they were at Yale University in the early 1980s.<\/p>\n

n <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Congressional report published today confirms what we long suspected: the FBI supplemental investigation of then-nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh was, in fact, a sham effort directed by the Trump White House to silence brave victims and other witnesses who came forward and to hide the truth,\u201d said Blasey Ford\u2019s lawyers, Debra Katz and Lisa Banks.<\/p>\n

n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Bob Woodward\u2019s forthcoming book \u201cWar\u201d also reveals that Donald Trump<\/strong> kept in touch with Vladimir Putin<\/strong> after his presidency ended, CNN reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Citing an aide to the former president, Woodward writes that there have been \u201cmaybe as many as seven\u201d calls between the two since Trump left the White House.<\/p>\n

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Woodward also uncovers details of a moment from the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, when Trump secretly sent Putin testing machines:<\/p>\n

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But Putin \u2014 who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid \u2014 told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet, Woodward reports.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPlease don\u2019t tell anybody you sent these to me,\u201d Putin said to Trump, according to Woodward.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t care,\u201d Trump replied. \u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNo, no,\u201d Putin said. \u201cI don\u2019t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me. They don\u2019t care about me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Woodward writes that Trump has stayed in touch with Putin after leaving office.<\/p>\n

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In one scene, Woodward recounts a moment at Mar-a-Lago where Trump tells a senior aide to leave the room so \u201che could have what he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A forthcoming book by investigative journalist Bob Woodward<\/strong>, who has a long history of getting scoops involving US presidents and those around him, documents Joe Biden<\/strong>\u2019s candid, often profane, assessments of world leaders, CNN reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWar\u201d, which will be published 15 October, also reveals that US intelligence believed Russia was far more likely to use a nuclear weapon to gain the advantage in Ukraine than previously known.<\/p>\n

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But before we get into that, here\u2019s who Biden likes to curse about:<\/p>\n

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