During the second half of former President Donald Trump's interview with Bret Baier, released on Tuesday, the former president appeared to praise China's law and order during the beginning of the Communist era.
"China was hugely, 150 years ago, China was taken over by much lesser countries because they were all drugged out on the opium," said Trump.
"It's the Communist regime, they dropped the hammer," Baier reminded him.
"They were all drugged out, and they were totally, they were a disaster," said Trump. "They were taken over by other, smaller countries, large sections of China. And then, things happened and they had strong leadership and they put in the death penalty, and they've been able to build."
During the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong killed between 30 and 45 million people in famines and political purges — a higher death toll than the policies of either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin.
Conservative attorney George Conway, a longtime critic of the former president, had a cutting retort to this rant.
"The defendant is a leading expert on Chinese history because he has moo shu for brains," he tweeted.
