Kremlin confirms Trump sent Putin Covid test machines for personal use

The Kremlin confirmed that Donald Trump sent Covid test machines to Vladimir Putin for personal use while he was still in office, Bloomberg reported. The confirmation comes as Bob Woodward claims in his forthcoming book, War, that the former US president gifted the Russian president “a bunch of Abbott Point of Care Covid test machines” during the early stages of the pandemic in 2020.

FILE PHOTO: Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 28, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo(REUTERS)

On Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed the veteran reporter's claim in a statement to the outlet. “We also sent equipment at the beginning of the pandemic,” the spokesman added. While the Kremlin admitted that the GOP presidential nominee sent the Covid test machines to Putin, Peskov shut down Woodward's claim that the two presidents had “seven” secret phone calls. “But about the phone calls — it’s not true,” he said.