Trump mega-donor privately mocked his claim to have upper hand with China | Donald Trump

A senior donor of Donald Trump and other Maga Republicans showed the long -term position that the US president has long been in a long -term hand in commercial negotiations with China, and that even some loyal supporters were restless with the White House strategy.

Liz Uihlein, a billionaire businesswoman who founded his husband Richard and Office Supply Company Uline, sent an e-mail with a cartoon that could be seen as Trump’s Chinese President Xi Jinping, Earlier this year. In the cartoon, Trump says, “I keep the cards,” he responded to. “The cards were made in China.”

E -Posta, seen by Guardian, seems to be sent by an administrative assistant on behalf of Liz Uihlein in April. Uihlein caricature prepared a short statement: “All – usual. Liz”.

Barb is important because it was sent to Trump and movement by an important political ally. Liz and Richard Uihlein were the fourth largest political donors of the Presidential election cycle, according to Opensecrets, who followed political giving, and gave Republicans $ 143 million.

A uline spokesman Liz Uihlein said that he did not comment. A White House spokesman did not respond to the request request.

ULINE is a private company and it is difficult to measure the full impact of Trump’s tariff and other trade policies on the office supply company. However, people who speak with The Guardian say that Uline’s property imports a significant amount of China and other parts of the world. Uihlein did not host the trade policy for the first time. Uihlein, who lamented how Covid-19 Pandemin hit the global supply chain A letter published in the uline catalog After the 2020 elections, “America needs a consistent, largely united trade policy, if we don’t, this century belongs to China.”

It is not the only mega-donor with He had criticized the president before. Home Depot’s founding partner and a Republican donor Kengone for a long time, in an interview with Financial Times in April, the White House has been taken back since then, the tariffs that he announced at that time was very high and the president was “badly recommended”, he said.

Langone reversed himself a few months later in July when he told the CNBC’s Squawk box to use Trump’s oval office for revenge for revenge.

Langone, “I am happy to say that I am comfortable to do this. He’s the presidency. I was impressed by the people around him,” he said.

Trump gave the US an advantage in negotiations with China as it was last month. In the comments in the Oval office, the United States and China would have a “big relationship ,, but if she wants to“ incredible cards ”by playing“ China, ”.

Trump will talk to XI on Friday after an agreement that will enable Tiktok to work in the United States.

Both sides have suspended the most challenging title of Tat economic measures against each other since the second period of Trump, where the US threatened tariffs up to 145% against China. The US and China reached an agreement to reduce tariffs in May and renewed a lower rate in August after a new negotiation round. This extension will end in mid -November.