Trump said Xi wrote a ‘beautiful note’ after assassination attempt
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Then US President Donald Trump with China's President Xi Jinping in Osaka on June 29, 2019.
PHOTO: REUTERS
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WASHINGTON – Former US president Donald Trump said on July 20 that Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote him a note after the Republican presidential nominee suffered a gunshot wound to his ear during an assassination attempt
“(Xi) wrote me a beautiful note the other day when he heard about what happened,” Trump told a crowd in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in his first campaign rally since narrowly escaping the July 13 assassination attempt.
He mentioned Mr Xi’s letter while discussing his economic policy towards China during his presidency, adding: “I got along very well with President Xi.”
Trump also referenced messages from other world leaders following the shooting at a rally in Pennsylvania.
On July 18, he accepted the Republican Party’s nomination to be its candidate in the Nov 5 presidential election. REUTERS
