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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/06/boltons-unredacted-book-shows-trump-trying-to-hideMake Sure I Win: John Boltons Unredacted Book Shows What Trump Was Really Trying to Hide
Trumps own words to Xi Jinping, among others, were so damning and politicized that the government insisted they be removed.
By Gabriel Sherman
June 18, 2020
John Boltons account that Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping last June to buy more American farm products to help Trumps reelection is so explosive that White House officials prevented Bolton from directly quoting Trump in Boltons new tell-all memoir. I would print Trumps exact words but the governments prepublication review process has decided otherwise, Bolton writes in The Room Where it Happened.
For months, Bolton has been in a standoff with the Trump administration over the books contents. Back in January, the White House sent a cease-and-desist letter to Boltons lawyer demanding that Boltons book not be released without the removal of certain details from the manuscript. Most recently, William Barrs Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit asking the judge to block the release of the book next week. Vanity Fair has seen unredacted pages from the book and its clear why the White House tried to keep Trumps words secret: they are deeply embarrassing and illustrate Trumps naked politicization of Americas foreign policy.
According to an unredacted passage shown to Vanity Fair by a source, Trumps ask is even more crudely shocking when you read Trumps specific language. Make sure I win, Trump allegedly told Xi during a dinner at the G20 conference in Osaka, Japan last summer. I will probably win anyway, so dont hurt my farms. Buy a lot of soybeans and wheat and make sure we win.
(The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)
Bolton renders Trumps interactions with President Xi in vivid detail. In the passages, Trump comes off like a needy supplicant. For example, at last years G20 dinner, with only interpreters present, Xi explained to Trump why China was building concentration camps for the countrys minority Uighur population. Trump allegedly told Xi he approved of the brutal human rights violation. According to our interpreter, Trump said to Xi, go ahead, youre doing exactly the right thing. Bolton writes. Earlier in the same passage, Bolton writes that Trump told Xi on a phone call ahead of their G20 meeting: I miss you, and then said, this is totally up to you, but the most popular thing Ive ever been involved with is making a deal with China. Making a deal with China would be a very popular thing for me.
Another passage shows Trumps racist views on immigration. Bolton describes how Trump derailed a White House meeting about Iran strategy by bringing up a right wing conspiracy that Black South Africans were killing white South African farmers and stealing their land. According to Bolton, Trump blurted out that he wanted to grant the white South Africans asylum and citizenship.
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"Make Sure I Win": John Bolton's Unredacted Book Shows What Trump Was Really Trying to Hide (Original Post)
babylonsister
Jun 2020
OP
He has the same IQ as the average 12 yr old but is mentally ill with narcissism and sociopathy
Eliot Rosewater
Jun 2020
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)1. He has the same IQ as the average 12 yr old but is mentally ill with narcissism and sociopathy
and he is also a psychopath.
Not exaggerating, this is who he is so no wonder so many support him....boy did we just wake up in hell or what.
5X
(3,972 posts)2. Whites only, of course...
'wanted to grant the white South Africans asylum and citizenship. '.