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Bolton book says Trump sought Xi’s 2020 vote help

Bloomberg Former National Security Advisor John Bolton writes in a new book that President Donald Trump asked Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help him win re-election by buying more US farm products, according to an excerpt published by the Wall Street Journal. The disclosure is part of a devastating portrayal of Trump’s conduct of foreign policy by Bolton, the most ...

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Polish president seeks poll boost with Trump meet

Bloomberg Polish President Andrzej Duda is hoping to boost his re-election bid by meeting Donald Trump in Washington next week, just four days before the east European nation’s ballot. Duda has long played up what he calls his “special relationship” with Trump, who gave a major foreign-policy speech in Warsaw in 2017. Additional security guarantees from the US at the ...

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To protect Putin from Covid-19, Russia isolates war veterans

Bloomberg World War II veterans selected to sit with President Vladimir Putin at next week’s Red Square military parade are being kept in isolation at a health resort as part of measures to protect him from possible exposure to the coronavirus. Nearly 80 veterans were brought to the resort outside Moscow for 14 days before the June 24 parade, when ...

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