Washington, June 18: Former US National security advisor John bolton’s new book ‘The Room Where It Happend’ claims that US president Donald trump sought China’s president help to win the election.
The allegations refer to a meeting between Mr Trump and President Xi Jingping at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June last year.
According to a report by BBC, referring to the incident the john wrote, ‘Trump, while having a conversation with Xi turned the conversation to the coming US presidential election in 2020, 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.”
When Mr Xi agreed to make discussions on farm products a priority in trade talks, Mr Trump called him “the greatest leader in Chinese history”.
The US Government has taken legal action to prevent the book’s release, with Mr Trump saying that it threatened national security by revealing “highly classified information”.
“He broke the law as much as it’s going to be broken,” Mr Trump told Fox News, calling Bolton a “washed-up guy”.
“It’s highly classified information and he did not have approval.”
He delivered a similar message about the book earlier this week to reporters at the White House.
