Transcript: Kamala’s Harsh Takedown of Trump on Putin Shocker Nails It
An interview with foreign relations expert Nicholas Grossman about Bob Woodward’s bombshell report on Trump’s private dealings with Putin
Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.
In a new book, journalist Bob Woodward reports that Donald Trump privately sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin at the height of the pandemic, when many Americans couldn’t get them. Woodward also reports that after leaving office, Trump had as many as seven private phone calls with Putin. All this drew a harsh response from Kamala Harris, who pointed out that Trump kowtows to authoritarians like Putin mainly because he aspires to be a dictator himself. All this highlights something that hasn’t been front and center in this campaign: the direct connection between Trump’s authoritarian aspirations at home and the axis of autocrats internationally that are rooting for him to prevail. Today, we’re talking to Nicholas Grossman, who writes about these very issues at The Bulwark and Arc Digital and is a professor of international relations…