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Ex-U.S. President Donald Trump secretly sent Covid-19 tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin amid a domestic shortage at the height of the pandemic in 2020, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing its associate editor Bob Woodward's upcoming book.

Putin, a known germophobe who was widely said to have taken extra precautionary measures including extended self-isolation during the pandemic, reportedly accepted Trump's tests but urged him to avoid going public about them.

"I don't want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me," Putin was quoted as saying to Trump at the time.

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[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah, they went straight in the trash.

Putin, being a clever person, knows that value of the act though.

[-] Podunk@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago

Putin, being a clever person, used his own swab for the test.

The qtip was not the revolutionary part of the covid test.

[-] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 1 points 2 hours ago

I know that, you know that, Putin knows that... do we think trump knew that ;-)

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