This week, CNN’s Jake Tapper gave former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson a chance to help the American media spread the latest false story about Trump and Russia.
Johnson served as prime minister and foreign secretary in the UK during the same four years that Trump was president. He not only refused to support the story, but he also pointed out President Trump’s historic efforts to keep Russia in check, which the Biden-Harris administration has had trouble with.
He went on CNN to talk about his new book, “Unleashed.” While Tapper said he wanted to talk about the former prime minister’s book, it seemed like he was much more interested in some of the more shocking claims in Bob Woodward’s upcoming book. In particular, he seemed to want to look into the claim from yet another unnamed source that Trump has talked to Putin up to seven times since leaving the White House.
“These made-up stories by Bob Woodward are not true at all.”
Democratic activists and the left media are eager to make a big deal out of this claim. For example, Susan Rice, who used to be Obama’s U.N. ambassador, jumped to the conclusion on Tuesday that Trump had broken the Logan Act and done something illegal.
It got more attention from White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who said, “If it is true, it is indeed worrisome.”
Steven Cheung, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign, said to The Hill, “None of these made-up stories are real.” He also said that Woodward “infected himself with Trump derangement syndrome.”
In response to the president’s $50 million lawsuit against him for sharing audio records of their conversations without permission, Woodward may be angry.
CNN is also saying that Woodward’s book says that former President Trump and Vladimir Putin have had several phone talks. He said, “Maybe as many as seven since Trump left the White House in 2021. How do you feel about that?”
“That may or may not be true, and I have no idea what those kinds of talks are about,” Johnson said.
Following the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his adult daughter by a Russian double agent in 2018, Trump directed the removal of 60 Russian officials whom his administration recognized as intelligence officers. Additionally, he shut down the Russian embassy in Seattle.
“They wouldn’t have invaded Ukraine if he had been president in 2022.”
