In an interview, President Donald Trump suggested that the United States was hacking China briefly left Maria Bartiromo speechless briefly.
Bartiromo told Trump in an interview recorded on Friday and Futures on Sunday morning In Fox News, China “has been hacked into our telecommunications system, they've been stealing intellectual property, fentanyl, Kuved and all of that stuff.” “How do you negotiate with a bad actor and trust their trust in economics?” she asked.
“Do you think we don't do that to them? We do a lot of things,” Trump told a silent Bartiromo.
“Is this how the world works?” Bartiromo questioned.
“This is how the world works. It's an annoying world,” Trump said.
Donald Trump talks to Maria Bartiromo in Fox News in a Friday interview (Fox News)
The president stressed the “large trade deficit with China” and said the country would “pay a lot of tariffs.” However, he said he has “good relationships” with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
He went on to claim that former President Joe Biden allowed the trade deficit to “get a trillion dollars.”
“We reached a 145% tariff with China,” he added. “I will tell you that everything in China has stopped. I see everything has stopped and we provide a favor for China, but we get along well with China.”
“I think getting along well with China is a very good thing, but they have to pay a lot of tariffs,” Trump said.
Bartiromo suggested that Trump did not use leverage on China.
Trump replied: “If I had to use it, I would use it. But when there is no reason to use it, that's also good.”
“We did arrest three or four Chinese nationals who were trying to bring pathogens into the country, make people sick and destroy food supplies,” Bartiromo said.
“However, you don't know where that came from,” Trump said. “I mean, is it from the country or through Vacos that happens to carry something?”
Bartiromo said one of the citizens “signed a paper saying he would value Mao Zedong's value system” before continuing the hacking charges and the rare earth mineral agreement between the United States and China.
“Do you think China will stop bullying companies to provide them with information … in exchange for those rare earth minerals?” she asked.
“These companies shouldn't put themselves in this position,” Trump said. “Now, I'm going to say that, now China needs a lot more of these companies than it did two years ago.”
“Many companies in China are now moving back to the United States,” he claimed. “China will treat them better when they need it. Under Biden, they don't need them because they tear us apart.
The president's comments suggest that the United States is adopting the same strategy for China, that Beijing is considered targeting the United States, recalling an interview in 2017, and soon he said he respected Russian President Vladimir Putin. At that time, Trump also appeared on Fox News, when an interviewer called Putin a “killer” and Trump said there were many in the United States.
“I respect a lot of people, but that doesn't mean I'm going to be with him. He's the leader of his country. I say it's better to get along with Russia than Russia. If Russia helps us help us in the fight against ISIS, it's a big fight, it's an Islamic terrorism all over the world – it's a good thing,” he told Bill Bill O'Reilly at the time. “Will I get along with him? I don't know.”
“But he is a killer. Putin is a killer,” O'Reilly said.
“There are a lot of killers. We have a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country is so innocent?” Trump responded.
