John Bolton Plumbs the Depth of Trump’s Depravity
The former national security adviser accuses the president of putting his reelection above everything else—endorsing the persecution of China’s Uighur minority.
In June 2019, Donald Trump was desperate for a win—and he was willing to endorse Chinese concentration camps to get it.
In the back half of his first term, Trump was feeling pinched. He’d escaped Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation without charges, but a Democratic House was making his life progressively more difficult and he hadn’t had a major political win in months. There were even warning signs for the economy. So when the president met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Japan, he had issues other than human rights on his mind.
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