Mod: It looks like Benedict Donald was selling his dimpled ass to every dictator on the planet in exchange for a little election help. America's foremost traitor ever was certainly working the phones.
Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book (
Washington Postlink):
President Trump asked
Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020
U.S. election, telling
Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by
Beijing from
American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser
John Bolton.
During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019
Group of 20 summit in
Japan,
Xi complained to
Trump about
China critics in the
United States. But
Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that “
Trump immediately assumed
Xi meant the
Democrats.
Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the
Democrats.
“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming
U.S. presidential election, alluding to
China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with
Xi to ensure he’d win,”
Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased
Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print
Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”
At the same meeting,
Xi also defended
China’s construction of camps housing up to 1 million
Uighur Muslims in
Xinjiang— and
Trump signaled his approval. “According to our interpreter,”
Bolton writes, “
Trump said that
Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which
Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do.”
The episode described by
Bolton in his book, “
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” bears striking similarities to the actions that resulted in
Trump’s impeachment after he sought to pressure the
Ukrainian president to help dig up dirt on
Democratic rival
Joe Biden in exchange for military assistance. The
China allegation also comes amid ongoing warnings from
U.S. intelligence agencies about foreign election interference in November, as
Russia did to favor
Trump in 2016.
And on the
Ukraine scandal itself,
Bolton cites personal conversations with
Trump confirming a “
quid pro quo” that
Trump had long denied, including an August meeting in which
Trump allegedly made the bargain explicit.“He said he wasn’t in favor of sending them anything until all
Russia-investigation material related to [
Hillary]
Clinton and
Biden had been turned over,”
Bolton writes.
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