Traitorous Bastard Trump asked Xi to help him get re-elected says Bolton:
Julia Davis
During a 2018 NATO summit, Trump had decided to inform allies that the U.S. was going to withdraw from NATO if they didn’t increase defense spending. Bolton tried to stop Trump from delivering the threat, he replied: “Do you want to do something historic?”
Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
The memoir, obtained by The Washington Post, portrays an “erratic” and “stunningly uninformed” commander in chief, and lays out a long series of jarring encounters between the president, his top...
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Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitution to serve more than 2 terms. Bolton also quoted Trump saying journalists should be jailed so they would reveal their sources: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags”
Bolton spends little effort trying to explain Trump’s sympathetic approach to Putin. “This was hardly the way to do relations with Russia, and Putin had to be laughing uproariously at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki,” Bolton writes.
Bolton recounts numerous private conversations Trump had with other leaders that revealed the limits of his knowledge. He recalls Trump asking Kelly if the nation of Finland is part of Russia.
Trump pleaded with Chinese President Xi Jinping to ensure he’d win the 2020 U.S. election, Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome." |
