Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Over Bob Woodward Shocker Draws Blood

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In a new book, Bob Woodward reports that Donald Trump sent covid tests to Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic, and that after leaving office, Trump had up to seven private phone calls with Putin. This drew a harsh response from Kamala Harris, who pointed out that Trump kowtows to Putin because he aspires to be a dictator himself. Which highlights something important: The direct connection between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations at home and the axis of global autocrats rooting for him to prevail. We talked to international relations professor Nicholas Grossman, who writes on these issues, about all these shadowy links, and whether Harris can highlight all this in the home stretch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:29.6	I'm your host, Greg Sargent. I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:40.6	In a new book, journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald Trump privately sent COVID tests to Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic when many Americans couldn't get them.
1:47.4	Woodward also reports that after leaving office, Trump had as many as seven private phone calls with Putin.
1:54.1	All this drew a harsh response from Kamala Harris, who pointed out that Trump kowtows to authoritarians like Putin, mainly because he aspires to be a
2:03.1	dictator himself. All this highlights something that hasn't been front and center in this campaign,
2:09.5	the direct connection between Trump's authoritarian aspirations at home and the axis of autocrats
2:15.7	internationally that are rooting for him to prevail.
2:19.3	So today we're talking to Nicholas Grossman, who writes about these very issues at the
2:23.6	bulwark and ARC digital and as a professor of international relations.
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