Trump promises US farmers he will hold China to trade deal, require them to buy $50 BILLION in US agriculture products

Donald Trump was in rural Pennsylvania Monday to host a roundtable with farmers in Smithton on Monday where the GOP nominee discussed his "Protecting America Initiative” which is about ensuring fair trade practices for Americans, especially where Chinese agricultural products are concerned. He said that China will be buying up $50 billion in American agriculture products.

The meeting was led by Richard Grenell, Trump’s former acting director of national intelligence and former Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY), PBS News reported.

"Nobody's done more for farmers than what I've done,” Trump said to the group as he opened his presentation, noting that “unfortunately” the Biden-Harris administration hasn't “followed through.” Trump cited the trade deal he negotiated with China that would have seen the country buying up $50 billion in US farm products every year.

Trump told the roundtable that he was initially demanding $15 billion in food purchases but that his trade negotiators thought he said $50 billion and so he just went with the latter figure. The former president says the Biden-Harris administration isn’t enforcing the deal. The Republican presidential candidate said “the first thing” he will do if he returns to the Oval Office is to enforce that deal.

"I enforced it every single week. I'd go into the office, I'd say,’ How's China doing?’ Because you have to live up to that commitment. I'd say, 'How's China doing buying the product?' They’d say, 'Good, sir. Good. They're doing good.' And they were doing good because they knew I was watching. I don't think [President Joe] Biden is exactly watching," Trump said. The GOP nominee has been critical of the Biden-Harris administration on China before, saying that that the administration is “owned by China” as well as other criticisms.

"The second thing I'm going to do is, I'm going to say [to China], 'You have to give the death penalty to your fentanyl dealers who are sending fentanyl.' You know, in China, they give the death penalty. They don't have a drug problem because they give the death penalty," he said.

"We're losing hundreds of thousands of people a year [to fentanyl]; it comes through the southern border," which he described as "the weakest border in history," adding, "It was the best border we ever had. When I was there, we built hundreds of miles of wall and everything else, and it was the best border. Now it's the weakest,” he said, referring to the criminal gangs and millions of illegal immigrants that have crossed it in the last four years.