Apple Daily owner Jimmy Lai speaks to CNN's Will Ripley in 2020.
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Apple Daily owner Jimmy Lai speaks to CNN's Will Ripley in 2020.
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Trump has vowed to free Jimmy Lai. A Hong Kong court is about to decide the media mogul’s fate

Days before winning his second presidential term, Donald Trump made a bold promise: if he returned to the White House, he would free a pugnacious, self-made billionaire from a Hong Kong prison.