White House’s Navarro ‘Never Heard’ Trump Ask China’s Xi for Help Winning Election

White House’s Navarro ‘Never Heard’ Trump Ask China’s Xi for Help Winning Election
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro walks out for a television interview about the Trump administration’s CCP virus response, at the White House in Washington on March 26, 2020. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
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WASHINGTON—White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Sunday said he was in the room with President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping when they met, but never heard the U.S. president ask for China’s help in winning re-election.

Navarro told CNN’s “State of the Union” that the explosive allegation made in a book by former national security adviser John Bolton was “just silly” given how tough Trump had been on China and its unfair trade practices.