From John Bolton’s book draft: He says he voiced concerns to William Barr that President Trump was effectively granting personal favors to autocrats.
Monday, January 27, 2020 8:35 PM EST
Mr. Bolton’s account underscores the fact that the unease about Mr. Trump’s seeming embrace of authoritarian leaders, long expressed by experts and his opponents, also existed among some of the senior cabinet officers entrusted by the president to carry out his foreign policy and national security agendas.
Mr. Barr responded by pointing to a pair of Justice Department investigations of companies in those countries and said he was worried that Mr. Trump had created the appearance that he had undue influence over what would typically be independent inquiries, according to the manuscript. Backing up his point, Mr. Barr mentioned conversations Mr. Trump had with the leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and President Xi Jinping of China.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/27/us/politics/john-bolton-trump-book-barr.html?campaign_id=60&instance_id=0&segment_id=20711&user_id=75ee940ebe2fd3e9d0a6bb93cf283302®i_id=16112385
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