Trump Accuses China (Not Russia) Of Midterm Election Meddling In UN Remarks

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of attempting to interfere in the 2018 elections “against my administration.”

“They do not want me, or us, to win, because I am the first President ever to challenge China on trade,” Trump said while chairing the United Nations Security Council. “And we are winning on trade, we are winning at every level. We don’t want them to meddle or interfere in our upcoming election.”

In July, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said China — along with Russia, Iran and North Korea — “are penetrating our digital infrastructure and conducting a range of cyber intrusions and attacks against targets in the United States.” But Russia, Coats said, “has been the most aggressive foreign actor — no question.”

Watch Trump’s Wednesday remarks below:

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  1. I, I, I, me, me, me. The UN should disband, all governments should dissolve and anoint Trump as the King of the Earth. World peace in our time.

  2. This must be about the four page ad the Chinese government put out in a Des Moines newspaper.

    China reached into the U.S. heartland in its escalating trade war over President Donald Trump’s tariffs, using an advertising supplement in Iowa’s largest newspaper to highlight the impact on the state’s soybean farmers as “the fruit of a president’s folly.’’

    The four-page section in Sunday’s Des Moines Register, which carried the label “paid for and prepared solely by China Daily, an official publication of the People’s Republic of China,” featured articles including one outlining how the trade dispute is forcing Chinese importers to turn to South America instead of the U.S. for soybeans.

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-23/china-looks-to-influence-iowa-in-trade-war-over-trump-tariffs

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    Trump, almost yelling at the UN Sec. Council gives a big shout out to Kim Jung Un, his best dictator for ever.

  3. Did they laugh at him again?

  4. Not that I know of. I think the members are too stunned at the ochre colored lunatic.

  5. President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused China of attempting to interfere in the 2018 elections “against my administration.”

    “They do not want me, or us, to win, because I am the first President ever to challenge China on trade,” Trump said

    
    Well...................ummm....................I guess it's "GO CHINA!!"
    
    
    Right?

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