Jamie Raskin takes aim at Trump’s friendly comments toward China’s Xi – Washington Examiner

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) targeted former President Donald Trump with a “Trump [loves] Xi” sign at a Wednesday hearing.

“The tyrants of the world are targeting Joe Biden and promoting Donald Trump, who has fawningly described President Xi as ‘a brilliant man,’ who has called Vladimir Putin a ‘genius,’ who has said he ‘fell in love’ with Kim Jong Un,” Raskin said at a House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing focused on defending America from the Chinese Communist Party.

“While Donald Trump has described President Xi as a ‘very good man,’ China is in fact an authoritarian police state, a violator of the human rights and civil liberties of hundreds of millions of people,” he added.

During his statement, staffers held up posters displaying Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s names along with a heart emoji.

The posters also featured some of Trump’s words of praise for Xi, including a quote from a Fox News interview last year in which he called the Chinese president “brilliant.”

“President Xi is a brilliant man. If you went all over Hollywood to look for somebody to play the role of President Xi, you couldn’t find it. There’s nobody like that. The look, the brain, the whole thing,” it read.

Two other signs showed an image of Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group, detained in Chinese internment camps and a quote from former U.S. national security adviser John Bolton alleging that Trump had told Xi to “go ahead with building the camps.”

Trump has drawn condemnation in the past for his praise of authoritarian leaders such as Xi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

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Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley took aim at Trump in February for his description of Xi as a “very good friend.”

“Praising dictators is not normal. Make America normal again,” she wrote in a post on X.