Agent Orange

“As the coronavirus tore through the world in 2020, and the United States and other countries confronted a shortage of tests designed to detect the illness, then-President Donald Trump secretly sent coveted tests to Russian President Vladimir Putin for his personal use.” WaPo (Gift Article) on Trump’s dictator love and American betrayals, while in office, and after, as detailed in Bob Woodward’s latest book. Trump secretly sent covid tests to Putin during 2020 shortage, new book says. An “unnamed Trump aide cited in the book indicated that the GOP standard-bearer may have spoken to Putin as many as seven times since Trump left the White House in 2021.” (Trump is a dream Russian asset. Every day, he finds new ways to betray America. And yet, his enablers persist.)

+ Also from WaPo (Gift Article): FBI probe of Kavanaugh constrained by Trump White House, report finds. “The report notes there was no dedicated tip line set up for the Kavanaugh inquiry; members of the public used a preexisting portal called the National Threat Operations Center. The FBI received more than 4,500 calls and electronic messages related to Kavanaugh and was directed to forward the tips to the White House without pursuing any possible leads, according to the report. Even when senators contacted the FBI directly with the names of people who claimed to have relevant information about Kavanaugh, the FBI did not contact them.”