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octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:00 PM Jun 2020

Trump asked China's Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book

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 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.”

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.


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.

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Trump asked China's Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book (Original Post) octoberlib Jun 2020 OP
No surprise there soothsayer Jun 2020 #1
I gather Xi wasn't as helpful as Putin? dawg day Jun 2020 #2
octberlib is much faster than I jls4561 Jun 2020 #3
Not that fast, lol. People beat me to posting all the time. octoberlib Jun 2020 #6
Hey, I'm learning and my ego's not that big. jls4561 Jun 2020 #9
Republicans simply don't care abut our Democracy Johnny2X2X Jun 2020 #4
Seems to me this is an undeniably impeachable offense. honest.abe Jun 2020 #5
I could only post 4 paragraphs due to copyright infringement but this article is full of stuff. octoberlib Jun 2020 #7
Wow. This has to be the end. honest.abe Jun 2020 #12
We knew all this in Sept/Oct of 2019!!! Roland99 Jun 2020 #8
The whole article is jaw-dropping. n/t demmiblue Jun 2020 #10
Yes, it is. I might have to download the book. octoberlib Jun 2020 #11

dawg day

(7,947 posts)
2. I gather Xi wasn't as helpful as Putin?
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:04 PM
Jun 2020

I wonder what he has to say about Trump's love affair with Kim Jong-Un.

jls4561

(1,241 posts)
9. Hey, I'm learning and my ego's not that big.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:17 PM
Jun 2020

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)
4. Republicans simply don't care abut our Democracy
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:06 PM
Jun 2020

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.

octoberlib

(14,971 posts)
7. I could only post 4 paragraphs due to copyright infringement but this article is full of stuff.
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:14 PM
Jun 2020

" 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."

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
8. We knew all this in Sept/Oct of 2019!!!
Wed Jun 17, 2020, 03:16 PM
Jun 2020

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

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