CNN has some more tidbits from Bob Woodward’s new book, War:
- Woodward writes that Biden’s national security team at one point believed there was a real threat, a 50% chance, that Putin would use nuclear weapons in Ukraine.
- Biden said he “should never have picked” Attorney General Merrick Garland during a conversation over his son’s legal troubles.
- Biden criticized former President Barack Obama’s handling of Putin’s invasion of Crimea in 2014, concluding that “Barack never took Putin seriously.”
- Citing a Trump aide, Woodward reports that there have been “maybe as many as seven” calls between Trump and Putin since Trump left the White House in 2021.


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