2024-10-09 02:12:48
The White House has declined to comment on allegations of phone calls between Russian President Vladimir Putin and former US chief of staff Donald Trump.
As Day.Az reports with reference to TASS, talking with journalists, White House Deputy Press Secretary Emily Simons neither confirmed nor denied the information on this matter contained in the new book by Bob Woodward, a veteran American journalist and member of the editorial board of The Washington Post newspaper.
“Again: when it comes to this book, I will not comment on the specific episodes presented. Writing books about the current [американскую] administration and others – a completely ordinary thing. Let others talk about it,” Simons said, answering questions from the press aboard US President Joe Biden’s plane from Washington to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. “In the meantime, we remain firmly committed to the President [Украины Владимиру] Zelensky and do everything possible to support Ukraine “, added the representative of the American leader.
She did not respond to a request to clarify whether the US government was concerned about the alleged telephone conversations between Putin and Trump several times after the latter left the US presidency in January 2021. “I have no specific comment on this matter,” Simons emphasized.
According to Woodward, Trump and Putin could communicate up to seven times after the expiration of the powers of the 45th President of the United States. However, Trump campaign communications director Stephen Chun essentially denied these data. “None of these bogus stories about Bob Woodward are true,” Chun said in a written statement. Advisor to the former owner of the White House, Jason Miller, spoke in the same vein. “I didn’t hear that they [Путин и Трамп] talking. So I would resist [таким утверждениям]”,” Miller emphasized. US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, according to Woodward, refused to clarify whether such calls took place or not.
In July, Western media claimed that Trump, who is running for the presidency of the United States from the Republican Party in the upcoming elections on November 5, was allegedly conducting a dialogue with the Russian leader on the conditions for achieving peace in Ukraine. However, Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Putin and Trump are not conducting a dialogue on Ukraine.