The former top security aide says the US president routinely made foreign policy choices to benefit himself politically
US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping leave a business leaders event at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on November 9 2017. Picture: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP
The former top security aide said the result was emblematic of “the confluence in Trump’s mind of his own political interests and US national interests”, writing that he routinely made foreign policy choices to benefit himself politically. Trump lashed out at his former adviser in tweets early on Thursday. He earlier told The Wall Street Journal that Bolton was “a liar” and offered a vindication of his foreign policies.
Bolton writes that in 2019, Trump offered to reverse criminal prosecutions against Huawei Technology Companies if it would help secure a phase one trade deal with China. “If these accounts are true, it’s not only morally repugnant, it’s a violation of Donald Trump’s sacred duty to the American people to protect America’s interests and defend our values,” Biden said in a statement on Wednesday.
Trump, in The Wall Street Journal interview, said he did not give his assent to Xi’s plan for the widespread detentions in Xinjiang. And in the interview with Hannity, the president said, “Nobody has been tough on China and nobody has been tough on Russia like I have. And that’s in the record books and it’s not even close. The last administration did nothing on either.”
The revelations came out at almost the exact time that secretary of state Michael Pompeo was meeting China’s top foreign policy official, Yang Jiechi, for secretive talks at the Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii. Both sides have so far refused to discuss the agenda for the talks.
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