Trump 'pleaded' with China's president to buy US agricultural products to help him win the 2020 elec

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Business Insider

Trump 'pleaded' with China's president to buy US agricultural products to help him win the 2020 election, according to John Bolton's new book

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President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to buy agricultural products from the US to help Trump win states with large farming industries in the 2020 election.

That's according to an upcoming book by former national security adviser John Bolton, "In The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir."

Bolton writes that Trump was "pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win."

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/bolton-book-trump-xi-jinping-buy-us-products-win-reelection-2020-6?utm_source=notification&utm_medium=referral

[snowybirdie]

1. Is this the

same guy, who makes fun of Joe Biden for sucking up to China in all the ads I see?

[Grokenstein]

12. Projection, projection, projection!

Republicans are all about projection!

Not even the first time we've heard about Don-Don groveling in private at the feet of the very people he plays tough guy against for the cameras.

"But the fact is we are both in a little bit of a political bind because I have to have Mexico pay for the wall, I have to.”
-- Trump to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on a January 27, 2017 phone call. (Narrator: "Nieto knew they were not both in a political bind." )

[olegramps]

15. Bolton is just another immoral Republican gangster operating a shakedown racket.

[ace3csusm]

23. I guess his negotiating skill are just good in books...

Didnt he say trade wars are easy to win...The art of trumped again...

[mtngirl47]

2. Whiny ass idiot. Art of the deal my ass.

That is the first thing that popped into my head.

[olegramps]

14. His book was mistitled: It should have been: The Art of the Steal.

Trump is the master of blackmail. It is exactly how he got the nomination by threating that if he did not get the support of the Republican National Committee he would run as a an Independent. This was his method of operation as a testified to by his trusted attorney in which he stated that Trump would refuse to pay and then threaten the person who had provided services with a law suit. That is his trusted method of operation since he was a child. He is little more than a cheap two-bit gangster just like the thugs that operated shake down protection rackets. It isn't complicated at all. The latest example is the relocation of the nomination convention.

[sakabatou]

3. Trump sucks up to world leaders again while trying to look strong

[jgmiller]

4. I've always hated Bolton but

In his own twisted way he is a patriot and he clearly has decided he wants to take Trump out. Of course it doesn't hurt he's going to make millions doing it but at this point I'll take the help from any place we can get it.

[Lonestarblue]

6. If he truly wanted yo take Trump out, he would have testified in the House.

He knew the impeachable crimes Trump had committed, but he played politics and stayed silent, while also putting his own future riches above the good of the country. Bolton might have made more money had he testified because some people will not buy his book because he refused.

[Evolve Dammit]

7. yep

[ace3csusm]

22. I still dont think Republican would have voted against him...

Even with Bolton testimony ... they have too much to lose...their base would have turned on them...

[sheepfarm]

18. Sometimes you've just got to step back...

...and let two of the big men that inhabit the virtual land of scum and villainy slog it out against each other until one of them is dead and the other can't even stand that they would have been better off losing. Then you pick up the useful bits of both carcasses.

[Bev54]

5. So this was the reason he kept all the meat plants open?

risking lives so he could send Pork to China? Sounds like him.

[soothsayer]

10. "Look, I'll risk people's lives to send you pork, I just

...need you to do me a favor and not get mad when I keep saying China flu. Ok?”

[ffr]

8. tRump First

Always. He never changes. It's about making a buck, staying in power, looting the U.S. treasury, and cheating the American people.

This must end.

[justgamma]

9. The same China

who he accuses of unleashing the plague on the world? The same one he started a trade war with? Yeah I'm sure they want to help this idiot get another term.

[JDC]

11. This guy couldn't deal his way out of a wet paper bag

Worst deal maker ever. A Weak, ineffective loser

[Initech]

13. Desperation is a stinky cologne, Trump.

[Marie Marie]

24. So true. For someone who wants to appear sooo strong, pleading with China

to help him win an election makes him look sooo weak. He is beyond disgusting.

[ok_cpu]

16. I'm glad this is coming out, but Bolton lost me here:

"Had Democratic impeachment advocates not been so obsessed with their Ukraine blitzkrieg in 2019, had they taken the time to inquire more systematically about Trump's behavior across his entire foreign policy, the impeachment outcome might well have been different," he wrote.

1. tRump's conduct with Ukraine warranted removal from office on its own. The republicans in the Senate are cowards.

2. FU. Testify. And speak up for some interest other than your wallet.

[muriel_volestrangler]

19. There was massive obstruction by Trump loyalists into any investigation

There's no way Congress could have forced things like this out without whistleblowing. That could have been Bolton, but he chose to withhold the story and write it later for money.

[ok_cpu]

25. Truth. Thank you. n/t

[Corgigal]

17. Why does Trump

think this will help him? Those states already tip red.

He’s so damn stupid. He must be getting something off the top from the corporations for hie re election.

[GETPLANING]

20. Trump destroyed agriculture

Check this chart - DBA

[yaesu]

21. I hope the Biden campaign picks up on all the tRump China love with new ads

like forcing meat packers back to work so China could profit & this latest news. tRump ads implying Biden is close to China is all over the place, this false claim needs to be countered with the truth.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

26. This is the main issue that CBC News picked out to highlight in the 6 pm news halfhour

Impeachable.

A pattern with Ukraine call.