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Trump sent Covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says
- paulcarroty 2y agohttps://archive.is/rWeLa https://archive.is/rWeLa
- JPLeRouzic 2y agoIt was a strange time also in the EU: - French authorities confiscated four million masks from the Swedish health care company Mölnlycke [1] which were destined to Spain and Italy. - The EU commission blocked the shipping of the vaccine purchased by the UK [2]. - At the same time, Boris Johnson wanted to launch a military operation to recuperate them in the Netherlands [3]! - Italy blocked a shipment of 250,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to Australia [4]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_France#Shortage_of_masks_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_France#Sh... [2] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-struggle-pfizer-biontech-astrazeneca/ https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-coronavirus-vaccine-s... [3] https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-ex-pm-johnson-says-he-planned-raid-dutch-factory-get-covid-vaccines-2024-09-28/ https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uks-ex-pm-johnson-says-he-p... [4] https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-56286235 https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-56286235
- JSDevOps 2y agoAlso In an interview with Bob Woodward for his book Rage, Kushner mentioned an incident during the early days of the pandemic when a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster aircraft was sent to retrieve cotton swabs for COVID-19 testing. The plane was dispatched to Italy to pick up over a million cotton swabs, which were in short supply at the time.
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- iconjack 2y agothe unnamed Trump aide cited in the book indicated that the GOP standard-bearer may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times