In a telephone call the next day with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had urged Trump to raise the plight of the Uighurs, Trump told her that Xi had explained that they “like being in those camps.” Just a few weeks earlier, Pelosi had publicly questioned Trump’s fitness for office and urged his family or his advisers to conduct an “intervention” with the erratic president. She thought there was nothing more Trump could say that would astound her. But she was astounded nonetheless. They like being in those camps. Really? “Mr. President,” she eventually responded, “that’s what an authoritarian would
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