A new book's assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their politically fraught relationship and on Trump's sustained dialogue with world leaders as he seeks a return to power.

War,” by Bob Woodward, traces how Trump and Biden responded to international crisis and concludes that Trump is worse than Nixon, the president exiled by the Watergate scandal.

A new book by veteran Watergate reporter Bob Woodward says Donald Trump secretly sent coveted Covid-19 testing machines to Vladimir Putin for personal use when they were in short supply, a claim angrily dismissed by the Trump campaign.

The Kremlin has rejected claims that Donald Trump called Vladimir Putin several times following his departure from the White House. Woodward cites an unnamed Trump aide who indicated this year's Republican presidential candidate may have spoken to Putin up to seven times since leaving the White House in 2021.

The Kremlin denied on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been in contact with former President Donald Trump since he left office. "No, it's not like that," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told a reporter for a Russian news outlet in response to a question about whether the two had shared phone calls.

In his new book "War," Bob Woodward claims Donald Trump has had at least seven phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office.