Ex-US president Trump’s praise of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai flagged by prosecutors at nat. security trial
Hong Kong prosecutors have pointed to ex-US president Donald Trump’s praise of detained media mogul Jimmy Lai almost four years ago in his national security trial. Ivan Cheung, a lead prosecutor, presented to the court on Monday a series of tweets and reports published by the now-shuttered Apple Daily newspaper from August 2020. In them, Trump called the paper’s founder Lai a “brave man” following his arrest on suspicion of breaching the national security law Beijing imposed in June that year. The prosecutor highlighted a Chinese-language article published on August 21 that year, which read: “...