13 Dec 2016 2:06 pm
And here we go.
Trump thinks he's smarter than everyone else, but he doesn't realize who he's playing with.
How many other foreign leaders will attempt to use Trump's overseas investments and business partners as leverage to extort something they want from the U.S.?
Trump thinks he's smarter than everyone else, but he doesn't realize who he's playing with.
Erdoğan wants the U.S. to turn over a cleric that is living here in the Poconos, so he's using the arrest of Trump's business partner as leverage.Turkey arrests Donald Trump’s business partner to try to force U.S. to turn over dissident.
When Donald Trump first spoke with Turkish President Erdoğan in a congratulatory phone call after the election, Trump made a point of praising a top executive from the Doğan company.
The reason: the Doğan company is building Trump-branded towers in Turkey.
Trump appeared to be trying to convince Erdoğan to smooth the way for Doğan to build the tower.
But instead, Erdoğan had the executive arrested.
The exec in question doesn’t appear to have done anything wrong, but Erdoğan is nonetheless suddenly accusing him of being part of a failed coup which took place earlier this year.
Newsweeks's Kurt Eichenwald has connected the dots and concluded that Erdoğan is setting the stage to force Donald Trump to turn over Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is currently located in the United States.
The U.S. government does not believe that Gulen has done anything wrong, and that Erdoğan simply wants to punish him for being a political enemy.
How many other foreign leaders will attempt to use Trump's overseas investments and business partners as leverage to extort something they want from the U.S.?