Trump asked China president to help him win 2020 election, new Bolton book claims https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...2020-election-xi-jinping-bolton-a9571871.html Donald Trump "pleaded" with Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win re-election in 2020 by purchasing more US farming products, Mr Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton claims in his new book set to be released next week. At a one-on-one meeting at a multilateral summit in Japan in the summer of 2019, Mr Xi expressed his dissatisfaction with some critics of China within the US. Mr Trump mistakenly assumed Mr Xi was talking about Democratic lawmakers, Mr Bolton writes in his new book, the Washington Post has reported, and sympathised with Mr Xi's frustration. “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats," Mr Bolton writes. “He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Mr 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 former national security adviser adds. The excerpt from Mr Bolton's new book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, depicts a scene similar to the president's alleged attempt last summer to coerce Ukraine into helping him win re-election this year by announcing anti-corruption investigations into former vice president and 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. Mr Bolton's description of Mr Trump's and Mr Xi's conversation does not, however, outline a proposed quid pro quo between Mr Trump and China, whereas the Trump administration's freeze on vital military assistance to Ukraine as it sought political favours was a central component of Democrats' impeachment of Mr Trump. (More at above url)
Another Fake News story that has already been emphatically denied by Lightizer. The media is the enemy of America
Ask Joe Biden. Didn't he and his son get monies from China? That is the real story. Ask what he and his son did to get those monies? What favors did Joe Biden and the Democrats exchange for those monies?
So Bolton writing a book about his experience working with Trump and Trump saying things privately that he alludes to in public is media's fault?