Sounds like a lie to me told to a fool:

“I’ve been introduced to a person who is close friends with Donald Trump. And when I told her about The Epoch Times publication, she said that Donald Trump reads it every day and it’s the one newspaper that he believes to be a truthful and correct paper. … It’s the only one he trusts,” Taylor said.

and sure nuff, all I had to do was google, wikipedia has most what you need to know, it's a Falun Gong entity, fat chance he's ever looked at a copy:

Epoch Times is a multi-language newspaper[2] headquartered in New York City. The company was founded in 2000 by John Tang and a group of Chinese-American Falun Gong practitioners.[3] The newspaper covers general interest topics with a focus on news about China and human rights issues there. It draws from a network of sources inside China, as well as Chinese expatriates living in the West.[4][5][6][7]

The newspaper has been described by some scholars as a mouthpiece for Falun Gong,[8][9][10][11][12] connected with the group and carrying sympathetic coverage of it. A spokesperson for the newspaper says it does not speak for the practice.[13] The newspaper maintains a generally anti-communist editorial stance, including explicit opposition to the Communist Party of China.[8][14][15][16]

The Epoch Times is widely distributed in overseas Chinese communities, and has been publishing in Chinese since May 2000.[17] [.....]

 Which basically means this guy in your hood is trying to get the Chinese anti-mainland vote and has promised Falun Gong something and they are handing out stuff supporting him. Any politician who wants to sound pro-Taiwan and anti-mainland without being caught would of course tell the Falun Gong that they are wonderful and no one else would know the better and they would probably fall for it. It's also good for some human rights/freedom of religion supporter chits among certain types.

They are a pretty zealous group, close to cult like in their protest activities. Not sinister, though. But because they are so cult like, they've been persecuted by the Chinese government and the exiles and their supporters around the world are cultlike in their protest support. You'll never forget if you see them do a large scale protest, is always kinda spooky in one way or another.

It's actually kinda sad that they think Trump is a supporter. They actually have always struck me as a sort of naive group.

this guy is visiting Hong Kong right now, gives an idea of how weird the whole Falun Gong vs. Chinese government thing is: