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| ‘Completely Crazy': Lighthizer Denies Bolton's Claim That Trump Asked China For Election Help |
| 2020-06-18 |
| Bolton's exposed himself as a greedy bitter lying piece of shit [Daily Caller] U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer denied Wednesday that President Donald Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping in June 2019 for help in the upcoming presidential election, an allegation that former national security adviser John Bolton levels in his forthcoming memoir. "Absolutely untrue, never happened. I was there, I have no recollection of that ever happening. I don't believe it's true, I don't believe it ever happened," Lighthizer testified during a Senate Finance Committee hearing. New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez had asked Lighthizer, a well-known critic of the Chinese government, about an excerpt from Bolton's book in which he alleged that Trump asked Xi for election help during a meeting in Japan on the sidelines of the Group 20 summit in June 2019. "Trump then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China's economic capability and pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win," Bolton wrote in an excerpt published by The Wall Street Journal. "He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump's exact words, but the government's prepublication review process has decided otherwise." (RELATED: ‘He Is So Full Of Sh*t': Bolton Claims Mike Pompeo, Others Mocked Trump Behind His Back) Lighthizer told Menendez that he was in the meeting in question and that Bolton's allegation was "completely crazy." "Would I have recollected something as crazy as that? Of course I would," Lighthizer said. Bolton makes numerous other bombshell allegations against Trump in his book, "The Room Where It Happened." He accuses his former boss of appeasing foreign dictators such as Xi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Bolton also claimed that top Trump administration officials, including Sec. of State Mike Pompeo, were highly critical of the president during private conversations. The Trump Justice Department sued Bolton on Tuesday to delay the release of the memoir, which is set for release on June 23. |
| Posted by:Frank G |
| #4 As with all the stupid books that ex-Trump staff have written, lefties approach this one with X-Files "I want to believe." credulity. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-18 16:05 |
| #3 What makes anybody think Xi would help Trump when he's already given $1 billion to Joe? Er, ok, it was Joe's son. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2020-06-18 13:01 |
| #2 Bolton is just butthurt that Trump didn't start more wars. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2020-06-18 12:24 |
| #1 I used to wonder why Trump let people like Bolton, Mattis, McMasters, Kelly, Haley and Tillerson anywhere near his administration. I now realize he was giving each of them (maybe with the exception of Tillerson, who was just a bad, bad pick) a chance to come around and admit the neocon scam is finished. They all failed to come around and they all now are on the outside whining. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-06-18 11:58 |