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Jeffersons Ghost

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8. What other nation is capable but not necessarily willing to hack the election?
Sat Sep 21, 2019, 11:20 AM
Sep 2019

First, check out this old story from the South China Morning Post:

Donald Trump praises Xi Jinping over move to end term limit ... ‘maybe we’ll have to give that a shot someday’

But Beijing says it doesn’t want to export its governance model or ask other countries to follow its practices.

While the Communist Party’s proposal to remove the limit of two five-year terms – meaning Xi could stay in power indefinitely – has sparked criticism and fears of a return to strongman politics, Trump said he was fine with the idea. He even suggested the United States could “give that a shot someday”.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2135590/donald-trump-praises-china-president-xi-extending

Donald Trump reveals he called Xi Jinping ‘king’ – and says Xi liked it

“President Xi, who is a strong man, I call him ‘king’,” Trump said in a wide-ranging speech at Tuesday’s dinner. “He said, ‘But I am not king, I am president.’ I said, ‘No, you are president for life, and therefore you are king.’ He said, ‘Huh … huh.’ He liked that. I call him ‘king’. I get along with him great.”
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3004431/donald-trump-reveals-he-called-xi-jinping-king-and-xi-liked-it

Then, Teflon Don - the double-crossing wanna-be dictator for life - called President Xi "an enemy." According to another article from the government-controlled Chinese newspaper and numerous international media sources:

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