Donald Trump says Xi Jinping wrote him a 'beautiful note' after rally shooting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

79% : In his first campaign rally since narrowly escaping the attempt on his life in Pennsylvania, Trump told a crowd in Michigan on Saturday: "[President Xi Jinping] wrote me a beautiful note the other day when he heard about what happened.
72% : "The Republican presidential nominee recalled how he described Xi as "a brilliant man, he controls 1.4 billion people with an iron fist", adding that the Chinese leader makes people like Biden look like "babies".As well as familiar attacks on Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris, Trump also used the rally in Grand Rapids to hail Xi and Vladimir Putin as "smart, tough" figures who "love their country", echoing praise he gave in 2022 of the Russian president's strategy to invade Ukraine.
67% : In September 2018, Trump told a rally in West Virginia: "We fell in love.
49% : "The Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward later obtained 25 letters between Trump and Kim for his second book on the Trump presidency, Rage.
48% : In that same 2022 speech, at a rally in Georgia, Trump called North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un "tough", and said of Kim and Xi: "The smartest one gets to the top."
41% : On Saturday, Trump said he "got along very well" with both leaders.Still wearing a small wound dressing a week after the shooting, Trump also publicly supported the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, saying he was right in saying that "we have to have somebody that can protect us".
23% : Orbán was this week accused by the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, of betraying European leaders after he travelled to Moscow for what he called a "peace mission", holding a joint press conference with Putin in which the Russian leader told Kyiv to give up more land, pull back its troops and drop its efforts to join Nato.After meeting Trump recently in Florida, Orbán flagged the likelihood of a Trump victory, and urged European leaders to reopen "direct lines of diplomatic communication" with Russia and "high-level political talks" with China.

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