Jimmy Lai’s daughter praises Trump for mentioning imprisoned father to Xi

Claire Lai, the daughter of imprisoned media mogul Jimmy Lai, on Friday praised President Trump for mentioning her father during his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week.

The younger Lai told NewsNation’s Elizabeth Vargas that she and her family do not know the details of the conversation between Trump and Xi — but she wanted “to stress how grateful I am and we are [to] President Trump and his administration.”

“He truly is a man of his words,” Claire Lai said. “This is the second time that he has brought up my father directly with President Xi and, you know, it’s –– he has shown a continuous commitment to freeing my father and we are just so endlessly grateful, endlessly grateful for it.”

A panel of judges convicted Jimmy Lai, 78, in December on two counts of conspiring to collude with foreign forces and a charge of conspiracy to publish seditious materials. The case and trial were one of the country’s most high-profile examples of the........

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