But he had lived in the US for some time and had some idea about our culture and political system.
Maybe he was ambivalent about Communism in the early years.
His overtures to the Americans would suggest that he was sympathetic to the ideas of Jefferson and the Declaration.
Maybe he was just lying.
I suspect that Ho Chi Minh’s copy-catting the Declaration of Independence was just for show. He was a hard-core Communist—educated in the Soviet Union, founded the Indochinese Communist Party, served for many years as a Comintern official and even survived Stalin’s purges.