Trump campaign launches mad attack on Bob Woodward over book revelations

Donald Trump’s campaign released a wild statement Tuesday attacking Watergate reporter Bob Woodward over his new book, which contains a series of potentially damaging revelations about the former president.

The book, War, is set to be released next week and claims Trump secretly sent COVID testing machines to Vladimir Putin when the machines were not yet widely available. It also quotes an adviser saying Trump and Putin may have spoken on the phone up to seven times since Trump left office.

“None of these fabricated stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly insane and deranged man suffering from a debilitating case of Trump Deangement Syndrome,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. “Woodward is an angry little man and clearly upset that President Trump is successfully suing him over the unauthorized release of recordings he previously made. President Trump gave him absolutely no access to this garbage book.”

Cheung ended his awkward remarks by calling Woodward “a complete idiot who has mentally lost his mind.”

The Kremlin also denied the book’s claims.

“This is not true,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov New York Times. “It is a typical bogus story in the context of the political election campaign.”

Trump has been the focus of criticism for his friendly relationship with the Russian leader since his first term, and Woodward’s report will only fuel concerns about their chummyness less than a month before Trump’s battle against Democratic opponent Kamala Harris.

During his debate against Harris in September, Trump twice refused to say he hoped Ukraine would win in the war against Russia.

It’s not the first time Trump has made headlines for appearing in one of the 81-year-old’s legendary journalist’s books, which often make groundbreaking claims based, as in this case, on high-level, unnamed sources.

In 2020, amid the COVID pandemic, Woodward released Furya book that contained recorded interviews not between the author and an anonymous source, but Trump himself.

Trump admitted to Woodward that he thought the virus was “more deadly” than the flu, although at the same time he tried to compare the two.

In a later interview, when Covid was hitting hard in New York City, he told Woodward that he wanted to “play it down.”

Trump reportedly read the book in one evening but found it “very boring.”