Former national security adviser John Bolton claims President Donald Trump asked his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, to help him win the 2020 US presidential election, according to an excerpt from his upcoming book published by the Wall Street Journal.
That encounter, according to Bolton, took place during a June 2019 meeting between the two leaders in Osaka, Japan, where "Xi told Trump that the U.S.-China relationship was the most important in the world" and said that "some (unnamed) American political figures were making erroneous judgments by calling for a new cold war with China."
"Whether Xi meant to finger the Democrats or some of us sitting on the US side of the table, I don't know, but Trump immediately assumed that Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility to China among the Democrats," Bolton writes in the WSJ.
"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. He stressed the importance of farmers and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome," he adds.

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⁣Here's what he had to say about the Rayshard Brooks case and the Clayton County officer who pointed a gun at teens

⁣Joe Scarborough discusses the anti-government movement that advocates for a violent uprising and how it has flourished on social media in recent months. Aired on 6/17/2020.

⁣Former Atlanta officer kicked Rayshard Brooks after he shot him, DA says
Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard said that former Atlanta officer Garrett Rolfe kicked Rayshard Brooks "while he laid on ground, while he was there fighting for his life" after he was shot.
Howard said that the other officer on the scene, Devin Brosnan, Stood on Brooks' shoulders "while he struggled for his life."
"Once Mr. Brooks was shot, there is an Atlanta policy that requires that the officers have to provide timely medical attention to Mr. Brooks or to anyone who is injured. But after Mr. Brooks was shot, for some period of two minutes and 12 seconds, there was no medical attention applied to Mr. Brooks," the district attorney said.
At the news conference, Howard displayed a photo he said shows Rolfe kicking Brooks after he had been shot. There were audible gasps in the room as Howard revealed the image in Video

⁣Multiple Clayton County police officers are under scrutiny after claims they pulled a gun on several teens during an encounter.

There are now calls for the officers involved in the stop to be fired, and plans for a Wednesday protest. 11Alive News asked the Clayton County Police Department about the video, and they said they are aware of it.

⁣Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced that warrants will be issued in the shooting death of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta.

⁣Black cop fired after intervening on chokehold, I lost everything

⁣WLKY Investigates Officer involved in Breonna Taylor's death accused of wrongful arrest, sexual assault

⁣Randomly attacked 92-year-old woman now terrified, no longer feels safe in NYC

⁣This what happens being black in Greensboro NC. I was walking down the street to get in my car and two cops randomly pull up & tell me to stop saying I matched the discription of someone 6’2 (mind you I’m 5’8), With a fro (I have dreads). They pulled their guns thinking I had one.

⁣They want to round up all black man put them in the system

⁣Officers caught destroying a medic station in Asheville protest

⁣Rayshard Brooks' wife says she can't watch video of deadly shooting

⁣Published on Apr 18, 2012
DemocracyNow.org - After a massive corporate exodus prompted by growing scrutiny of its activities, the secretive right-wing American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) has announced it will stop pushing so-called Stand Your Ground and voter ID laws. Our guest Lisa Graves says this is an attempt by ALEC "to try to keep its donors and have the press move along." She notes "ALEC's broader agenda, which it calls its jobs agenda, is extraordinarily extreme itself," noting that one of its bills would cut of one's right to sue if your loved one is killed by a drug approved the Food and Drug Administration even if drug later recalled. Graves is executive director of the Center for Media and Democracy, which built "ALEC Exposed," a website showcasing more than 800 model bills the group has pushed in states nationwide. We're also joined by Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange.org, which has criticized corporations for working with ALEC to pass laws that hurt people of color, young people and the elderly, especially Voter ID laws. "You can't come for black folks' money by day, and try to take away our vote by night," Robinson says.

⁣Published on Jan 21, 2009
President George W. Bush video message to the American Legislative Exchange Council's annual meeting in Chicago, IL, July 2008.

⁣Published on May 20, 2015
This is a glimpse into the world of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a corporate-funded charity that pays for lawmaker trips to resorts where they leave with ready-to-pass bills. Neither ALEC nor the Georgia legislature would show us where the money comes from, or who it goes to.

⁣⁣American Legislative Exchange Council A.K.A ALEC Exposed The backroom where laws are Born.

⁣THROUGH THE CORPORATE-FUNDED AMERICAN LEGISLATIVE EXCHANGE COUNCIL (ALEC), GLOBAL CORPORATIONS AND STATE POLITICIANS VOTE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO TRY TO REWRITE STATE LAWS THAT GOVERN YOUR RIGHTS
THESE SO-CALLED "MODEL BILLS" REACH INTO ALMOST EVERY AREA OF AMERICAN LIFE AND OFTEN DIRECTLY BENEFIT HUGE CORPORATIONS
In ALEC's own words, corporations have "a VOICE and a VOTE" on specific changes to the law that are proposed in your state

Published on Dec 2, 2011
Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy Lisa Graves talks about her organization's investigation of ALEC.

Published on Sep 28, 2012
Moyers & Company presents "United States of ALEC," a report on the most influential corporate-funded political force most of America has never heard of -- ALEC, the American Legislative Exchange Council. A national consortium of state politicians and powerful corporations, ALEC presents itself as a "nonpartisan public-private partnership". But behind that mantra lies a vast network of corporate lobbying and political action aimed to increase corporate profits at public expense without public knowledge.

Using interviews, documents, and field reporting, the episode explores ALEC's self-serving machine at work, acting in a way one Wisconsin politician describes as "a corporate dating service for lonely legislators and corporate special interests."

In state houses around the country, hundreds of pieces of boilerplate ALEC legislation are proposed or enacted that would, among other things, dilute collective bargaining rights, make it harder for some Americans to vote, and limit corporate liability for harm caused to consumers -- each accomplished without the public ever knowing who's behind it.

"All of us here are very familiar with ALEC and the influence that ALEC has with many of the [legislative] members," says Arizona State Senator Steve Farley. "Corporations have the right to present their arguments, but they don't have the right to do it secretly."

"United States of ALEC" is a collaboration between Okapi Productions LLC and the Schumann Media Center, headed by Bill Moyers, which supports independent journalism and public watchdogs including the Center for Media and Democracy, whose investigators are featured in the report.

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