Trump asked China's Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser John Bolton.
During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.
He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to Chinas economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure hed win, Bolton writes. He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trumps exact words but the governments prepublication review process has decided otherwise.
The episode described by Bolton in his book, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, bears striking similarities to the actions that resulted in Trumps impeachment after he sought to pressure the Ukrainian president to help dig up dirt on Democratic rival Joe Biden in exchange for military assistance. The China allegation also comes amid ongoing warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about foreign election interference in November, as Russia did to favor Trump in 2016.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-asked-chinas-xi-to-help-him-win-reelection-according-to-bolton-book/2020/06/17/d4ea601c-ad7a-11ea-868b-93d63cd833b2_story.html
This whole article.
(and fuck you, Bolton)