The claim came when the Trump campaign had tried to make China a central issue in the 2020 elections, making the President harder in Beijing than Biden.

The revelation is just one of several that emerged Wednesday from Bolton’s book, entitled “In the Room Where It Happened,” which has been in legal battle for months between the White House and the former national security adviser. The battle escalated Tuesday after the Trump administration went to court to try to revoke Bolton’s revenue for the book and potentially stop publishing it, arguing in a lawsuit that Bolton had violated a non-disclosure agreement and risked national security by exposing confidential information.

But White House legal action has done little to stop details from Bolton’s book becoming public when The New York Times and other media revealed on Wednesday that they obtained a follow-up copy. This is scheduled for an official release next week.

According to a quote published in the Journal, after Xi was proven to agree to reopen trade discussions, Bolton claimed Trump praised the Chinese leader as the biggest in the country’s history.

In general, Bolton called Trump’s interaction with Xi “adlibbed,” supported by personal flattery and driven by political ambition rather than policy.

“Trump’s conversation with Xi not only reflects a mismatch in his trade policy, but also a meeting in Trump’s mind about his own political interests and US national interests,” Bolton wrote in his quote. “Trump confuses personal and national issues not only with trade issues but in all areas of national security. I find it difficult to identify any significant Trump decisions during my White House term that are not driven by re-election calculations.”

Bolton described a litany related to the Chinese issue in which Trump subverted US positions based on conversation or cues for Xi-tariffs, telecommunications, Hong Kong protests, and even Chinese mass arrests of Uyghur Muslims.

“At the dinner meeting of the Osaka G-20 meeting in June 2019, with only an interpreter present, Xi explained to Trump why he was basically building a concentration camp in Xinjiang. According to our translator, Trump said that Xi should continue construction. Camps “Which according to Trump is the right thing to do,” writes Bolton. “The main staff of the Asian National Security Council, Matthew Pottinger, told me that Trump said something very similar during the November 2017 trip to China.”

The US State Department estimates that more than one million Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, and members of other Muslim minority groups have been detained by the Chinese government in internment camps, where they are reportedly “subjected to torture, cruel and inhuman treatment such as harassment physical and sexual, forced labor and death. “Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo called Beijing’s treatment of the Uyghur” the stain of this century. “

At a massive pro-democracy protest in Hong Kong last year, Bolton claimed that Trump said he did not “want to be involved,” and, “we also have human rights issues.” In recent weeks, Trump has announced actions against China for his actions against Hong Kong’s autonomy.

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In particular, Bolton highlighted Trump’s willingness to intervene in criminal investigations “to, in essence, provide personal assistance to the dictators he likes,” noting cases involving law firms in China and Turkey, the Times said. “That pattern seems like a barrier to justice as a way of life, which we cannot accept,” writes Bolton, according to the Times.

Bolton’s accusation that the DPR’s impeachment investigation did not go far enough after he refused to testify before the DPR’s impeachment investigator last year, threatened that there would be a legal battle if he was summoned. Bolton offered to testify during the Senate’s impeachment proceedings, but the Republicans chose to reject the trial of any witnesses.

Bolton’s Operation in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday, entitled “Trump’s China Policy Scandal,” painted his former boss as a US President who was too vulnerable to flattery and a government that “struggled to avoid being sucked into a black hole. The US-China trade problem.”

The book excerpt was published after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, alleging that the Bolton manuscript which had more than 500 pages plus was “full of confidential information.” Prosecutors said that Bolton stepped down from the ongoing White House inspection process for the book he was required to do as a result of the agreement.

“(Bolton) bargained with the United States as a condition of his employment in one of the most sensitive and important national security positions in the United States Government and now wants to renege on the offer by unilaterally deciding that the pre-publication review process is complete and decided on its own “whether confidential information should be published,” wrote the prosecutor.

The legal approach in this case is one of the more extreme efforts in recent years to stop former Trump advisers from recounting their experiences, and the government’s strong efforts to stop publishing this book have implications for the First Amendment.