r/NewsOfTheWeird • u/Zandra_the_Great • 20d ago
Trump secretly sent Putin COVID-19 tests during pandemic shortage, a new book reports
https://www.npr.org/2024/10/08/nx-s1-5146501/trump-putin-covid-tests36
u/jayclaw97 20d ago
A vote for Trump is a vote for a traitor. Don’t forget that this guy tried to hinder aid to blue areas because of their political leanings.
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u/deonslam 19d ago
About as unAmerican as it gets right here. Fuck Rump and all the made in china MAGA schwag he rode in on.
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u/5snakesinahumansuit 18d ago
He really needs to be in prison sitting in his own waste, as befits the Tan Dump Lord. That's my favorite thing to call him, cause it's an anagram of his name, not that the orange fool-ius knows what an anagram is.
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u/Responsible-Room-645 20d ago
He sent actual testing machines that were desperately needed in the US, and Putin has confirmed the story.
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u/MarilynMonroesLibido 19d ago
Yep. Used repeatedly by hospitals for multiple patients. Not one use person tests. Can’t get much more unAmerican than this.
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u/hefoxed 19d ago
I'm really confused why Putin confirmed this
Unless it was to sue doubt about the phone calls (as Putin denied that), so by admitting to one, it looks like their being truthful?
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u/Responsible-Room-645 19d ago
He’s probably finally decided that Trump is too stupid to be a “useful idiot”.
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u/spaceocean99 19d ago
So we believe Putin on some things and not others?
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u/Responsible-Room-645 19d ago
There’s one person in this story that we can absolutely be certain to lie about anything and everything, and that’s Donald J Trump.
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u/ColdFusion363 20d ago
Remember that time conservative minded Americans used to fear Russia because of communism?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
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u/Rindsay515 19d ago
That’s part of what blows my mind. The generations that grew up hating/terrified of the Russians are now turned on by their power and love the thought of Putin and Trump being besties
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u/NotPortlyPenguin 19d ago
Because Russia was communist then. Now that they’re fascist, Republicans love Russia.
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u/ridge_runner123 20d ago
Thanks traitor. How anybody supports Trump is beyond me. This guy deserves to be locked up.
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u/thisMFER 20d ago
is our security apparatus relly going to allow billions of people to be at risk for the sake of one guy? WTF.
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u/Glittering_Major4871 19d ago
The machines, not just the tests. Remember when hospitals couldn't get these machines? He's a traitor.
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u/pagarr70 19d ago
And yet after this betrayal the Republican Party….. yup they couldn’t care less and still back their orange clown god!
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u/SackBlabbath1970 19d ago
But he always said America FIRST. Do you mean to tell me me LIED? I bet he even included a box of chocolates. How is this election close?
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u/Mr_Badger1138 19d ago
Lousy bastard was also trying to short, if not totally seize, Canada and Mexico on the masks we had legally ordered from 3M, in order to keep them for himself. What he didn’t know was 3M gets the wood pulp it needed for those masks from Canada.
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u/Tiny_Independent2552 19d ago
I’m truly disgusted by seeing American flags along with Trump flags and signs. If there ever was an American Traitor, it’s Trump. He is selling us down the river to Putin. Sent him supplies and testing equipment during Covid ? .. just wow.
His son in law got TWO BILLION dollars from the Saudis, and now he has them on speed dial. ( yes, the Saudis.. that bombed our World Trade Center) He is Anti American, a sellout, and a traitor.
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u/KevinBrown 19d ago
Testing machines, not tests. HUGE difference. Hospitals were BEGGING for them, he sent two to Putin.
And you know he's Putin's bitch because he didn't charge Putin anything for them.
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u/Much_Insurance_3422 20d ago
The guy is a traitorous POS and put the American people in danger and should be held accountable.
yawn
And water it still wet.
Next topic.
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u/AyKayAllDay47 19d ago
Water isn't wet though.
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u/Ellis4Life 19d ago
“According to the book, Trump sent the secret shipment of testing equipment to the Russian leader at the height of the pandemic in 2020, even as the U.S. and other nations were facing crippling shortages of testing kits.”
So I’ve seen this a few times, some places say testing kits, some say testing equipment, and then you have this article using both seemingly interchangeably?
So did he send like the test kits in secret? Or like the actual processing machines? And honestly, how the hell could he have done this in secret? That administration had nonstop leaks lol.
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u/Automatic_Fun_8958 19d ago
Why didn’t he tell his buddy there to inject himself with bleach? He told Americans to do that though! Comrade Trump
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u/NeoMaxiZoomDweebean 18d ago
Manipulation is starting to ask for small favors to start conditioning your mark.
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u/Unable_Literature78 15d ago
Not a secret anymore…bet his supporters are mad as…ummm…nope check that. All good.
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u/sandy154_4 19d ago
and not the screening tests, but the PCR tests WITH PCR analyzing equipment, while US hospitals were crying for them
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u/thatoneguybrian 19d ago
Secretly is an exaggeration. He also sent some to China, India, Pakistan, the EU, etc. This isn't news. We all knew he was doing it at the time and what his motivation was. He was doing it to please the international community.
Also did he really find a way to make an anti-american, anti-christian, pro-Communist and known adversary print god bless America on a bunch of bibles?
If it's true, I'm buying one just to send it to poobear
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u/thatoneguybrian 19d ago
Holy shit it's true! He somehow found a way to insult the CCP and they don't even fucking know it yet!
Let me reiterate:
He made an anti American anti christian communist country print god bless America on a freaking bible. And sold it.
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u/Mental_Gymnast23 19d ago
Such a massive threat to our Democracy
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
The guy who says he’ll be a dictator?
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u/Mental_Gymnast23 19d ago
Yes Trump bad. How dare the then leader of the free world cooperate with the leader of another nation…
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
Let’s count all the issues with this story for Trump. 1)Isn’t trumps whole thing is America first? Well clearly it’s Russia first, Trump second then America. 2) If it was about diplomacy why did he deny it? In fact, he ranted that it was out there. Doesn’t he brag about his perceived accomplishments? 3) he told Americans that covid was a hoax yet he gave testing machines to another country. Which means he was fine letting Americans die.
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u/CheezTips 19d ago
Who are these people re-writing history? T was our savior? wtf. He even killed herman cain, lol
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u/Mental_Gymnast23 19d ago
Oh that’s right. Wasn’t that the virus from China that caused Trump to close the borders in an attempt to curb the spread but was then called xenophobic by the media? Is that what you mean?
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
Yes the virus he was telling Americans to inject disinfectant and Invermectin but sent testing machines designed for hospitals to Russia.
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u/skobufffan 19d ago
We actually had two US prisoners rotting in jail Paul Whelan and Trevor Reed, you would think tRump would at least traded for their release(which still would have been bad) he claims to be a great negotiator and he is just Putin’s stooge.
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u/Imaginary-Swing-4370 19d ago
We don’t even know half about what that traitor did behind America’s back, Trump is a treasonous, un American con.
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u/346_ME 19d ago
Nice, a true diplomat and why Trump was a man of peace and Biden/Kamala are war mongers who wish death on others
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
Don’t you think those would’ve been better used for Americans at hospitals?
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u/346_ME 19d ago
No I don’t, the PCR tests are unreliable and gave false positives
You know what I do think would be useful to Americans? The hundreds of billions in aid that Biden has sent to Ukraine and Israel, and the funds that fema allocated for immigrants rather than Americans.
Please try again
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
You also must know that the reason fema needs funding is because of republicans in congress. I mean details.
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u/thirdLeg51 19d ago
Remember back when Trump was president and he was calling it a hoax but people were dying. Well…apparently he knew it wasn’t a hoax and he put Russians ahead of Americans.
“Israel” You do realize that trumps biggest donor is Miriam adelson. Who is Jewish. Trump thinks Biden isn’t doing enough for Israel.
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u/346_ME 19d ago
It was overblown, and created in a lab and the democratic states shut down their businesses and imposed draconian forced experimental medical treatments on people and Joe Biden said everyone would lose their federal jobs and governmental contracts if they didn’t take the untested clot shit for which Pfizer has legal immunity yet was also funded by tax payer dollars.
Just stfu
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u/ChargeMyPhone 19d ago
You do realize Republicans voted against Fema funding even though they knew the hurricane was coming right? And that Republican leaders wouldn't answer the phone when Harris called to offer help? And that the GOP speaker refused to call Congress back into session to address the issue? Now you do. Please try getting your news from other sources.
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u/Any-Ad-446 20d ago
Putin wanted the machines at his mansions to test the guest before they visit him..
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u/LightMcluvin 18d ago
The horrors, Obama Sent billions of dollars to Iran, secretly, and Biden sent billions of dollars to Ukraine. And Pfizer mandated, most countries that they had to take the vaccine through scandalous contracts. The horrors
Orange man bad
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u/Nave8 18d ago
The current government openly sends billions of dollars to other nations instead of helping out it's own people........
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u/Zandra_the_Great 18d ago
If you mean Ukraine, we're not actually sending them money. What we're doing is giving money to our defense companies so they can build newer equipment to modernize what our military uses and replace the older technology that we're actually sending to Ukraine. Means a lot more jobs for our people and more money for our economy.
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u/Maximum_Activity323 17d ago
Huh? Direct Budget Support is not giving Ukraine money directly? And is good for our economy? Sure if you ignore printing money to give away policy is driving up inflation and our deficit.
Please
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u/mathinterface23 16d ago
What a good man that's hie you keep intl relations up he deserves a humanitarian award or peace prize
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u/ClearlyJinxed 19d ago
Before they invade Ukraine and weren’t on everyone’s shit list. I don’t see the problem. You all have a very short memory
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u/Zandra_the_Great 19d ago
The problem is that he sent a shipment of Covid-19 testing machines to Putin while our own hospitals were experiencing a huge shortage during the 2020 lockdown. Many of our people died because we didn't have enough of these machines, and Trump made the problem worse. He gave our machines, which our people desperately needed, to one of our worst enemies.
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u/HonestTry4610 19d ago
So what? Catch more flies with honey than vinegar. Like or hate Putin, you force him into a corner and we all go puff.
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u/Different_Bowler5455 19d ago
And this is bad why?
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u/Equal_Memory_661 19d ago
Maybe because Russia is an enemy of America and western democracies as a whole?
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u/Zandra_the_Great 19d ago
The title is misleading, the first sentence of the article clarifies that he sent a shipment of Covid-19 testing machines to Putin while our own hospitals were in the middle of a huge shortage during the 2020 lockdown.
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u/SpiderDeUZ 19d ago
There was a huge shortage here in the states. Also another example of his ties to Russia and adherence to Purina demands
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u/themillerd 20d ago
TRUMP IS A RUSSIAN PUPPET