Bolton book makes clear the dangers of a second Trump term

Thought Leader: Jen Psaki

June 19, 2020

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By Jen Psaki (original source CNN)

“Former national security adviser John Bolton wrote a forthcoming book detailing, among other things, how President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 election and told him to go ahead with building concentration camps for Uyghur Muslims. We should not feign shock.

This is entirely consistent with the portrait of an unstable, ill-equipped, self-obsessed President long susceptible to flattery and manipulation, who has been living in the White House for going on four years.

After all, President Trump encouraged China to investigate the Biden family in a public statement from the White House. And that wasn’t even that surprising, given it happened during an impeachment investigation focused on his threat of holding back military assistance to Ukraine unless it launched an investigation into his political opponent.”

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