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Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump Over Bob Woodward Shocker Draws Blood

As Harris blasts Trump over revelations about his private dealings with Putin, a foreign policy expert explains what the news reveals about Trump’s ties to the global authoritarian right.

Vice President Kamala Harris
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Vice President Kamala Harris in Ripon, Wisconsin, on October 3

In a new book, Bob Woodward reports that Donald Trump sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic when many Americans were desperate for them and that, after leaving office, Trump had up to seven private phone calls with Putin. This drew a harsh response from Kamala Harris, who pointed out that Trump kowtows to Putin because he aspires to be a dictator himself. Which highlights something important: the direct connection between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations at home and the axis of global autocrats rooting for him to prevail. We talked to international relations professor Nicholas Grossman, who writes on these issues, about all these shadowy links and whether Harris can highlight all this in the home stretch. Listen to this episode here. A transcript is here.