U.S. President Donald Trump, joined by lawmakers and health care professionals, speaks to reporters during an event in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on May 11, 2026. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
President Donald Trump said on May 11 that he plans to raise the cases of media entrepreneur Jimmy Lai and pastor Ezra Jin during his upcoming meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping.
“I’ll bring them both up,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
