John Bolton claims to have privately told Attorney General William Barr last year that he was concerned President Trump was granting favors to the autocratic leaders of China and Turkey, The New York Times reported Monday.
Barr told Bolton in response that he worried Trump had created the appearance of undue influence over two Justice Department investigations of companies in China and Turkey, which are traditionally independent inquiries, the draft manuscript says, according to the Times.
Bolton also claims, the Times reported, that Barr cited Trump's comments to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in 2018 about an investigation into the state-owned Turkish bank Halkbank -- though ultimately the Justice Department charged the bank with"fraud, money laundering, and sanctions offenses related to the bank's participation in a multibillion-dollar scheme to evade US sanctions on Iran.
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