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‘Completely Crazy’: Lighthizer Denies Bolton’s Claim That
Trump Asked China For Election Help

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.

https://dailycaller.com/2020/06/17/lighthizer-john-bolton-donald-trump-xi-jinping/