Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, spoke with Newsmax on Monday about Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “unique relationship” with her state.

The senator’s interview on “The Record With Greta Van Susteren” comes after reports of the United States and China agreeing to pause reciprocal tariffs for 90-days while a more permanent trade deal is worked out.

In 1985, Ernst told Susteren, Xi “actually did spend quite a bit of time in Iowa when he was a young provincial governor and did develop a relationship with the people of Iowa while he was living in an agricultural community on the eastern side of our state.”

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