Bolton accuses Trump of seeking Chinese aid for re-election

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Donald Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton accuses the President of seeking Chinese aid to win re-election in November, according to explosive extracts from a forthcoming book, published by of the American media on Wednesday.

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The former adviser says that in June 2019, Donald Trump had "  diverted the conversation on the next presidential election, by alluding to the economic capacity of China and by pleading with Xi so that he makes sure that he wins,  "according to excerpts published simultaneously by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Washington Post.

During this meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, the American president "  stressed the importance of farmers and the increase in Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat on the result of the election  ", writes in his memoirs this republican hawk, hostile to multilateralism and willingly goes to war.

Leaks in the press followed the day after the Trump administration announced legal action to try to block the scheduled June 23 publication of this book, The Room Where It Happened, A White House Memoir.

"  Trump's conversations with Xi reflect not only the inconsistencies in his trade policy but also the interconnection in Trump's mind between his own political interests and the American national interest  ," said John Bolton, 71, national security from April 2018 to September 2019.

"  This and countless other similar conversations with Trump have confirmed fundamentally unacceptable behavior that erodes the very legitimacy of the presidency,  " he accuses.

John Bolton then turns to the dismissal procedure launched in the United States Congress by the Democrats against Donald Trump at the end of 2019 for the Ukrainian affair, in which he had not testified.

"  If the Democrats who defended the (Trump) indictment had not been so obsessed with their lightning war on Ukraine in 2019, if they had taken the time to investigate more systematically at Regarding Trump's behavior across the whole spectrum of his foreign policy, the outcome of the indictments could have been much different, "he said.

His book had already burst into American political life when passages were leaked to the press in January, in the midst of a dismissal trial.

In these initial excerpts, John Bolton reported on a conversation last August in which Donald Trump had explained to him that he did not want to unblock crucial aid to Ukraine until she investigated his democratic opponent Joe Biden - now candidate against him for the presidential election of November 3. Donald Trump had been acquitted by the Republican-dominated Senate.

(With AFP )

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