Trump counters Harris media blitz by ripping Bob Woodward, Howard Stern and her hurricane briefing

On 1 point, astatine least, the Kremlin has sided with Bob Woodward against Donald Trump.

Woodward is coming retired with a caller book, and among its headline-making disclosures is his study connected what happened erstwhile the pandemic struck, erstwhile the decease toll was soaring and radical could not get location investigating kits for Covid-19.

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President Trump, astatine that constituent successful 2020, secretly sent Vladimir Putin a fig of Abbott Point of Care Covid trial machines "for his idiosyncratic use."

The Trump run said Woodward’s book, an beforehand transcript of which was obtained by CNN, consisted wholly of made-up stories.

But Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov confirmed the receipt of the Covid machines.

A side-by-side with erstwhile President Donald Trump and investigative writer Bob Woodward. (Getty Images)

"As for the tests, erstwhile the pandemic began, countries did not person capable equipment," Peskov said. "And galore countries past exchanged specified gestures of enactment and sent each different shipments of assorted instrumentality they had." 

In fact, during that outpouring of 2020, Russia sent the Trump medication 60 tons of aesculapian equipment.

Woodward besides quotes the Russian dictator arsenic telling Trump: "I don’t privation you to archer anybody due to the fact that radical volition get huffy astatine you, not me. They don’t attraction astir me."

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But Peskov disputed different assertion by Woodward, that Trump has stayed successful interaction with Putin since helium near the White House, with arsenic galore arsenic 7 calls betwixt them. "As for the calls, that's a lie," Peskov said.  

In the publication "War," however, the Washington Post sleuth recounts a country wherever Trump tells a apical adjutant to permission the country truthful "he could person what helium said was a backstage telephone telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin." Trump officials present accidental they’re not alert of immoderate specified conversations.

The erstwhile president granted Woodward 18 taped interviews for his erstwhile book, but they had a falling retired aft the seasoned newsman wrote that Trump was unfit for bureau – and was sued by his taxable for releasing the recordings.

In this excavation photograph distributed by Russian state-owned Sputnik agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a gathering with the acting politician of Kaliningrad Region astatine the Novo-Ogaryovo authorities residence, extracurricular Moscow connected August 14, 2024.  (Gavriil Grigorov/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

I cognize Woodward’s enactment highly well, and portion immoderate writer tin beryllium misled by sources, helium does not marque things up.

Other parts of the publication woody with Joe Biden confronting Putin astir the coming penetration of Ukraine, had Kamala Harris pass a skeptical Volodomyr Zelenskyy, and – with officials assuming a 50 percent accidental that helium mightiness usage a tactical atomic limb against the Ukrainians, called the Kremlin brag the "epitome of evil."  

The president repeatedly cursed retired Bibi Netanyahu, calling him an SOB and, later, a "f***ing liar" aft the Israeli premier curate invaded the crowded country called Rafah contempt American pressure.

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In the connection from Trump’s spokesman, which sounds similar it was dictated by the boss, Woodward is described arsenic "a genuinely demented and deranged antheral who suffers from a debilitating lawsuit of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Woodward is an angry, small antheral and is intelligibly upset due to the fact that President Trump is successfully suing him due to the fact that of the unauthorized publishing of recordings helium made previously. President Trump gave him perfectly nary entree for this trash publication that either belongs successful the bargain bin of the fabrication conception of a discount bookstore oregon utilized arsenic toilet tissue. Woodward is simply a full sleazebag who has mislaid it mentally, and he’s slow, lethargic, incompetent and wide a boring idiosyncratic with nary personality."

Why halt there?

Trump, who prides himself connected being a counter-puncher, wastes small clip earlier swinging away.

U.S. Vice President and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Kamala Harris poses during the Unite for America live-streaming rally successful Farmington Hills, Michigan, connected September 19, 2024.  (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

After Harris’ affable vigor interrogation with Howard Stern, who said it would beryllium insanity to ballot for Trump, this station appeared connected Truth Social:

"BETA MALE Howard Stern made a fool of himself connected his low-rated vigor amusement erstwhile helium ‘interviewed’ Lyin’ Kamala Harris, and deed her with truthful galore SOFTBALL questions that adjacent she was embarrassed.

"He looked similar a existent fool, moving truthful hard to marque a wholly incompetent and ill-equipped idiosyncratic look arsenic bully arsenic possible, which wasn’t precise good. I dropped Howard a agelong clip ago, similar astir others, and person since been credited with precise bully judgment!" 

Donald and Howard were, of course, erstwhile New York pals, and Trump attended his wedding. 

Trump besides had run manager Chris LaCivita instrumentality a swipe astatine Fox News for covering (along with different networks) a authorities briefing, featuring some Biden and Harris, connected Hurricane Milton arsenic the monster tempest was heading toward Florida. 

"@FoxNews ⁩just arsenic atrocious arsenic each different ‘cable news’ web …running virtually propaganda and @KamalaHarris ⁩TV ads disguised arsenic a quality conference," Chris LaCivita posted connected X. 

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Of people there’s a governmental payment for Harris showing that she and FEMA are moving hard to hole for the Florida storm, conscionable arsenic determination is erstwhile Ron DeSantis holds a presser connected the Category 5 threat.

But with Kamala’s media blitz yet making immoderate quality aft weeks successful which Trump has dominated the run coverage, this reflects his determination to insert himself into each communicative that surfaces, nary substance however negative.