While Trump has been telling America that China is trying to elect Joe Biden because it wanted to stop Trump, he was negotiating with China to get help electing himself to stop Biden. jonathanchait writes
Photo: Thomas Peter-Pool/Getty Images President Trump has spent months claiming China is secretly working to help his opponent. “China is on a massive disinformation campaign because they are desperate to have Sleepy Joe Biden win the presidential race so they can continue to rip-off the United States, as they have done for decades, until I came along!,” he tweeted in May. “China will do anything they can to have me lose this race,” he told Reuters the month before.
The headline revelation in former Trump national security adviser John Bolton’s new book is that Trump implored Chinese president Xi Jinping to help his reelection by agreeing to purchase American farm products. Bolton presents this deal as a scandal on par with the Ukraine scheme that got Trump impeached.
At one point, Xi mentioned anti-China rhetoric in the United States, which Trump took as a reference to his opponents. “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats,” Bolton writes, “Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.” Xi told Trump he wanted to work with him for six more years, to which Trump replied that many Americans were clamoring to lift the Constitution’s two-term limit.
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