Bolton Book Shows Trump Eager to Help Autocrats in U.S. Courts
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Donald Trump, left, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Brussels, Belgium, in 2018.
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President Donald Trump repeatedly sought to interfere in the U.S. judicial system to curry favor with leaders from Turkey to China, according to a new book by former National Security Advisor John Bolton.
At a Group of 20 meeting in 2018, Trump told President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he thought a key Turkish bank facing a Justice Department indictment “was totally innocent of violating U.S. Iran sanctions” and vowed to “take care of things,” according to Bolton.