Trump asked China's Xi for help to win 2020 election, claims Bolton
WASHINGTON, DC: Donald Trump pleaded with China's leader Xi Jinping for help to win re-election in 2020, the US president's former national security advisor John Bolton writes in an explosive new behind-the-scenes book, according to excerpts published on Wednesday .
In a key meeting with Xi last June, Trump"stunningly turned the conversation to the US presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Bolton claims in his upcoming tell-all. "The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn't accept," writes Bolton, who says he reported his concerns to Attorney General William Barr.The bombshells come in the thick of a presidential election campaign against the Democratic former vice president Biden.The conservative Bolton, himself a controversial figure in US politics, spent 17 turbulent months in the White House before resigning last September.
Bolton did not explicitly say whether Trump's newly revealed actions amounted to impeachable conduct, but argued they should have been investigated by the House. Bolton's non-testimony enraged Democrats at the time, and their anger was revived Wednesday as the excerpts were published.
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