\u2018That’s the way the world works. It’s a nasty world,\u2019 president says during sit-down interview<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Donald Trump left Maria Bartiromo briefly speechless during an interview when he suggested that the U.S. is hacking China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bartiromo told Trump in the interview recorded on Friday and broadcast on Sunday Morning Futures on Fox News that China \u201chacked into our telecom system, they’ve been stealing intellectual property, fentanyl, COVID, all of this stuff.\u201d \u201cHow do you negotiate with obviously a bad actor and trust them on economics?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou don’t think we do that to them? We do. We do a lot of things,\u201d Trump said to a silent Bartiromo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat’s the way the world works?\u201d Bartiromo questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat’s the way the world works. It’s a nasty world,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president emphasized the \u201cbig trade deficit with China\u201d and said that the country would be \u201cpaying a lot of tariffs.\u201d However, he said he has a \u201cgreat relationship\u201d with Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He went on to claim that former President Joe Biden allowed the trade deficit to \u201cget up to a trillion dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe had a deal with China where it was 145 percent tariffs,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd I will tell you, everything stopped in China. I saw that everything stopped, and we did China a favor, but we’re getting along well with China.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think getting along well with China is a very good thing, but they are paying substantial tariffs,\u201d said Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bartiromo suggested Trump was not using the leverage against China available to him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIf I ever had to use it, I’d use it. But when there’s no reason to use it, that’s good too,\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe did just arrest three or four Chinese nationals who tried to bring a pathogen into the country that gets people sick and destroys food supply,\u201d said Bartiromo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou don’t know where that came from, though,\u201d said Trump. \u201cI mean, did that come from the country or is that through wackos that happened to carry something?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bartiromo said one of the nationals \u201csigned a paper saying that he would value Mao Zedong\u2019s value system,\u201d before moving on to the hacking allegations and a rare earth minerals deal between the U.S. and China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cYou think that China is going to stop bullying companies to give them information \u2026 in exchange for getting those rare earth minerals?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe companies shouldn’t put themselves in that position,\u201d said Trump. \u201cNow, I will say this, China, right now, needs those companies much more than they needed them two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA lot of the companies that are in China are now relocating back to the United States,\u201d he claimed. \u201cChina is going to treat them much better as they need them. They didn’t need them under Biden because they were ripping us off left and right. They need them under Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The president\u2019s comments suggesting the US was using the same tactics against China that Beijing is thought to be using against the United States recalled an interview in 2017, not long into his first term, when he said he respected Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the time, Trump also appeared on Fox News when an interviewer called Putin \u201ca killer\u201d with Trump saying that the U.S. has many of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI respect a lot of people, but that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to get along with him. He\u2019s a leader of his country. I say it\u2019s better to get along with Russia than not. And if Russia helps us in the fight against ISIS, which is a major fight, and Islamic terrorism all over the world \u2013 that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d he told then-Fox host Bill O\u2019Reilly. \u201cWill I get along with him? I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBut he\u2019s a killer, though. Putin\u2019s a killer,\u201d said O\u2019Reilly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are a lot of killers. We\u2019ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country\u2019s so innocent?\u201d Trump responded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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