Trump has called Putin 'at least seven times' since he left the White House… and sent a bizarre gift he demanded he keep secret

Former President Donald Trump has kept successful regular interaction with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving bureau – holding much than a fistful of telephone calls with him, according to bombshell allegations successful Bob Woodward's caller book.

Woodward describes the grade of the contacts and attributes them to a Trump adjutant successful his caller publication War, CNN reported. 

There were 'maybe arsenic galore arsenic seven' aft Trump near bureau successful 2021, Woodward writes. And the timeline extends until aft Putin's bloody invasion of Ukraine.

The intervening play has featured brutal rocket and drone strikes connected Ukrainian cities and town, and a resulting flood of U.S. and allied sanctions against Russia arsenic good arsenic Putin and members of his circle.

Trump has stated repeatedly astatine his run events that Russia ne'er would person invaded Ukraine if helium had inactive been successful office.

During the tallness of the pandemic successful 2020, Trump besides sent Putin a concealed stash of Abbott covid trial machines 'for his idiosyncratic use,' Woodward reports. 

It came astatine a clip of gestures of solidarity arsenic the pandemic spread, but Putin reportedly wanted to support it hush-hush. 

'Please don't archer anybody you sent these to me,' Putin told Trump, according to Woodward. 'I don't care,' Trump told him. 'Fine.'

'I don’t privation you to archer anybody due to the fact that radical volition get huffy astatine you, not me,' Putin told him, the Washington Post reported.  

Woodward interviewed Trump for his past book, but Trump publically attacked the author. 

His run enactment retired a connection slamming Woodward arsenic a 'truly demented and deranged man' whose 'made up stories' are false.

Putin kept an bonzer level of isolation during during the onset of the pandemic, and immoderate experts judge his being chopped disconnected from extracurricular interaction whitethorn person contributed to his determination to motorboat and penetration that has outgo thousands of Russian and Ukrainian deaths.  

One telephone came successful aboriginal 2024, according to the Post, which besides obtained the book. It reported Trump ordered an adjutant distant from his Mar-a-Lago bureau for the telephone with Putin. 

The study comes days aft the New York Times reported connected Trump's 2017 gathering with Putin successful Hamburg, their archetypal face-to-face encounter.

Putin, whose forces had already seized Crimea, told Trump Ukraine 'was a corrupt, fabricated country.' Trump told him was considering sending weapons to Ukraine, according to the Times. 

'What bash you think?' Trump asked him, successful a gathering that seemingly rattled erstwhile Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. 'We've got enactment to bash to alteration the president's caput connected Ukraine,' Tillerson told aides erstwhile the gathering concluded.

Woodward's publication paints a contrasting representation of President Joe Biden, whose medication has steered billions successful blase weaponry to Kiev. 

'That f****** Putin,' Biden told advisors pursuing the invation. 'Putin is evil. We are dealing with the epitome of evil,' helium said.

Trump past period stood broadside by broadside with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and said helium would bring an extremity to the bloody conflict. He has criticized U.S. backing for Ukraine, and his efforts to get Zelensky to probe the Bidens was featured successful Trump's archetypal impeachment.

'I besides person a precise bully narration arsenic you cognize with President Putin and I deliberation if we triumph [the election] we’re going to get it resolved precise quickly,' Trump said.