Trump says he received a ‘beautiful note’ from ‘brilliant’ President Xi after the assassination attempt one week ago
Former President Donald Trump announced Saturday that Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote him a note following the assassination attempt a week ago.
The Republican presidential candidate said Xi reached out to him during a speech at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
It was his first campaign rally since the gunman opened fire at the event in Butler, Pa., with one bullet grazing Trump’s ear. One man was killed and two others were seriously wounded.
‘[Xi] wrote me a nice note the other day when he heard what happened,’ Trump told the jubilant crowd at the packed Van Andel Arena in the city center.
Trump said Xi sent him a note during an economic policy discussion with China. He did not share what the letter contained.
Donald Trump said Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote him a nice letter after the assassination attempt. Trump revealed the outreach during a speech at a rally in Grand Rapids
The former president also called Xi “brilliant.”
“He controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist,” Trump said. “He makes guys like Biden look like babies.”
Trump spoke to a huge crowd in Grand Rapids. It was his first rally since the gunman opened fire on the crowd in Butler, PA, and the first was in rare form, cracking jokes, criticizing his political opponent and feeding off the energy of the crowd.
The campaign event, unlike the Butler rally, took place indoors, but under heightened security.
It was also the first rally since Trump accepted the Republican nomination for president in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Thursday during the Republican National Party Convention.
The former president spoke for nearly an hour and a half, praising Xi, Russian President Putin and Hungary’s Viktor Obran.
Trump said he got along very well with President Xi and called him “brilliant” during a speech at his campaign rally in Michigan
“I got along very well with President Xi,” Trump said at his rally.
The ex-president also boasted that he gets along well with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it was a good thing and that he had a lot of nuclear weapons.
“I got along well with him. You were never in danger with me as your president,” he said. “It’s good to have a good relationship, not a bad one.”
Later in his meeting, Trump addressed China’s trade policies.
He promised that if re-elected he would pass the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act, claiming that if China imposed a 100 or 200 percent tax on the US, the US would impose a “200 percent” tax on them.