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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Jun 18, 2020, 06:46 PM Jun 2020

Trump backed Xi over concentration camps for Uighur Muslims, ex-aide Bolton claims

Donald Trump told the Chinese president Xi Jinping that building concentration camps to "re-educate" Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang was the right thing to do, according to sensational claims in a new book by John Bolton, the former US national security adviser.

The White House has tried to block the release of The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir. But an advance copy obtained by The Washington Post reports Mr Bolton's claim that Mr Trump backed the controversial camps during a conversation with Mr Xi at a G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan, in 2019.

It is also claimed that the US president asked his Chinese counterpart to help him win the 2020 election by purchasing more agricultural products from the United States.

The alleged incident echoes Mr Trump's July 2019 request to Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky to "do us a favour" by announcing investigations into Joe Biden, the likely Democratic challenger in November's election.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-uighur-muslims-concentration-camps-xi-china-john-bolton-book-a9571921.html

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Trump backed Xi over concentration camps for Uighur Muslims, ex-aide Bolton claims (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2020 OP
Trump probably figured he could use Turbineguy Jun 2020 #1
UGH . . . Iliyah Jun 2020 #2
We record those meetings so Bolton wouldn't lie Cicada Jun 2020 #3

Cicada

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3. We record those meetings so Bolton wouldn't lie
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 06:57 PM
Jun 2020

Bolton knew if he lied he would be discredited by the recording. So we know his report from his copious notes is accurate. Building concentration camps,where almost one million are now held, made good sense to Trump. Chilling.

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