On August 15, amid rising concern of a Chinese crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong, Trump tweeted, “If President Xi would meet directly and personally with the protesters, there would be a happy and enlightened ending to the Hong Kong problem. I have no doubt!” (The protests ended instead with Xi locking up the protest leaders and eliminating democratic guarantees that had been promised to Hong Kong residents.) On August 26, while in Biarritz, France, for a G7 meeting, Trump stunned advisers from both countries when he greeted Egypt’s brutal military leader, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, by calling
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