>Journalist Bob Woodward reports in his new book *War* that Trump has [spoken to Russian President Vladimir Putin](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-secretly-sent-putin-covid-tests-bob-woodward-book-1235128743/) multiple times since leaving office. Trump’s team denied this, but Trump declined to do so himself on Tuesday, telling Micklethwait that he won’t comment on it, but that if he did talk to Putin it would “be a smart thing.”

So he's talked to Putin