2020-06-17 00:00:00, Nicole Gaouette, CNN
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Bolton writes that according to the US interpreter in the room during a conversation between Xi and Trump at the G-20 meeting in June 2019, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was "exactly the right thing to do."
Bolton refused to testify during Trump's impeachment inquiry, choosing instead to save his disclosures for the book that has already vaulted to Amazon's best seller list, though he later said he would testify in the impeachment trial if subpoenaed by the Senate.
The President told White House counsel Pat Cipollone to call Attorney General Bill Barr about his desire to "arrest the reporters, force them to serve time in jail, and then demand they disclose their sources."
When the Turkish leader presented Trump with a memo from the law firm representing Halkbank, Trump flipped through it and then declared he believed the bank was totally innocent of violating US sanctions related to Iran.
Trump urged Xi to buoy his political fortunes by buying American agricultural products, linking a promise to waive some tariffs on China in exchange.
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