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By
Josh Dawsey
June 17, 2020 at 2:46 p.m. EDT
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 Chinas economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure hed win, Bolton writes. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trumps exact words but the governments prepublication review process has decided otherwise.
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 Trumps 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.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html
And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.
Trump's ass is grass.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)dawg day
(7,947 posts)I wonder what he has to say about Trump's love affair with Kim Jong-Un.
jls4561
(1,241 posts)and more clever at the copy and paste thing.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)jls4561
(1,241 posts)We've seen what an inflated sense of ego leads to - 118K dead, about 15% unemployment, devastation of air and water.
Johnny2X2X
(18,745 posts)Trump using trade negotiations to try to ask a foreign power to help get him re-elected is a betrayal of the office and he should be forced to resign.
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Shall we have a redux?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)" He also describes a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey where Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: These people should be executed. They are scumbags, Trump said, according to Bolton's account."
honest.abe
(8,556 posts)Even Republicans cant ignore this.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Trump raised Biden with the Chinese President in a June phone call housed in highly-secure server
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212542660
Trump adviser says China provided information about Hunter Biden days after Trump asked
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212566586