diff --git a/_posts/2024-10-08-day-1358.markdown b/_posts/2024-10-08-day-1358.markdown index 2b8c84070..10c225b0b 100644 --- a/_posts/2024-10-08-day-1358.markdown +++ b/_posts/2024-10-08-day-1358.markdown @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ todayInOneSentence: 'FEMA warned that false claims and conspiracy theories pushe * **📌 [Day 629](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/10/day-629/#fbi-director-christopher-wray-told-t): FBI Director Christopher Wray told the Senate that the White House limited the Brett Kavanaugh investigation**. The FBI's "supplemental update to the previous background investigation was limited in scope and that ... is consistent with the standard process for such investigations going back a long ways," Wray said. ([Politico](https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/10/kavanaugh-fbi-probe-limit-888667)) * **📌 [Day 623](https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/2018/10/04/day-623/#1-the-white-house-is-%E2%80%9Cfully-confiden): The White House is "fully confident" that Brett Kavanaugh will be confirmed by the Senate after receiving the FBI report**. The White House said it found no evidence in the FBI report corroborating Christine Blasey Ford's allegations of sexual assault against Kavanaugh. Mitch McConnell scheduled a procedural vote for Friday. If the motion passes, senators will have 30 hours to debate Kavanaugh's confirmation before making the final decision. ([Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/04/in-middle-of-the-night-tweets-white-house-says-it-is-fully-confident-in-kavanaughs-confirmation/) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mcconnell-sets-vote-friday-move-kavanaugh-confirmation-forward-n916491) / [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-finds-no-corroboration-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations-against-kavanaugh-in-fbi-report-1538625927)) -5/ **Trump secretly sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Putin for his personal use during the height of the pandemic**, according to Bob Woodward’s [new book](https://amzn.to/4eBVmCm), “War.” Putin, according to the book, told Trump: “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.” While U.S. and Russian officials in 2020 did publicly announce that “some testing equipment as well as ventilators” had been sent to Russia, officials never disclosed that it was for Putin’s personal use or that had urged Trump to keep their conversation secret. Woodward also reports that Trump has spoken to Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021. Harris, meanwhile, called the reporting "just the most recent stark example of who Trump is. People in America were struggling to get tests, and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?" ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/politics/trump-putin-woodward-book.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/blinken-biden-drop-out-bob-woodward) / [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-biden-putin-war-ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-ce9c59f689d3f438264a64b2bfa0aa39) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/trump-harris-election-live-updates-rcna174212) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/woodward-book-trump-putin-calls-00182840) / [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-08/claim-that-trump-sent-putin-covid-test-devices-draws-harris-criticism)) +5/ **Trump secretly sent Covid-19 testing equipment to Putin for his personal use during the height of the pandemic**, according to Bob Woodward’s [new book](https://amzn.to/4eBVmCm), “War.” Putin, according to the book, told Trump: “I don’t want you to tell anybody because people will get mad at you, not me.” While U.S. and Russian officials in 2020 did publicly announce that “some testing equipment as well as ventilators” had been sent to Russia, officials never disclosed that it was for Putin’s personal use or that he had urged Trump to keep their conversation secret. Woodward also reports that Trump has spoken to Putin “maybe as many as seven” times since leaving office in 2021. Harris, meanwhile, called the reporting "just the most recent stark example of who Trump is. People in America were struggling to get tests, and this guy is sending them to Russia, to a murderous dictator for his personal use?" ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/08/us/politics/trump-putin-woodward-book.html) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/10/08/bob-woodward-new-book-war-trump-putin-biden/) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2024/10/08/blinken-biden-drop-out-bob-woodward) / [Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-biden-putin-war-ukraine-russia-zelenskyy-ce9c59f689d3f438264a64b2bfa0aa39) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/live-blog/trump-harris-election-live-updates-rcna174212) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/08/woodward-book-trump-putin-calls-00182840) / [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-08/claim-that-trump-sent-putin-covid-test-devices-draws-harris-criticism)) ---