U.S. President Donald Trump urged China to influence U.S. elections and often misunderstood basic geography and international politics, a scathing new book about the Trump administration claims, according to the Euro News website.
Former Trump national security advisor John Bolton writes in his new tell-all memoir of his time in the administration that during a 2019 conversation in Japan with Xi Jinping, Trump spoke about the 2020 U.S. election, "alluding to China's economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he'd win" by buying more soybeans and wheat.
Bolton said this was among several conversations the U.S. president had which "formed a pattern of fundamentally unacceptable behavior that eroded the very legitimacy of the presidency."
Bolton was Trump's national security advisor for 17 months before quitting -- Trump said he was fired -- in September 2019.
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