Charges Against Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou Solid, Not Politically Motivated: Former Trump Adviser

Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, after a short morning session that ended the fourth day of trial in her extradition case, leaves British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, Canada, with her security detail on Jan. 23, 2020. Don Mackinnon/AFP via Getty Images

John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser, said on Friday that the arrest of and charges against Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou are solid and not politically motivated.

“The facts are what the facts are,” he said during an interview with CBC Radio’s “The Current.” “It’s very clear what the purpose of the arrest was. It was not politically motivated at all.”