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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNot "impossible to understand why Trump is leaving America's allies to be slaughtered"
Link to tweet
pwb
(11,292 posts).
celebrity con POS is doing Putin's bidding, and people are getting killed. Get him out please.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)You would think some of these fighters would realize that Trump's real estate interests are putting them in harm's way. Maybe if they weren't there anymore? Just saying.
Pobeka
(4,999 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)This is Shakespearean, King Lear-magnitude destruction and self-destruction. I don't accept that it comes down to the hotel. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm wrong plenty of times.
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)More about who is backing the forces moving in from the south.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Garrett78
(10,721 posts)pecosbob
(7,545 posts)even when they had the power to do so, so stop lying.
struggle4progress
(118,370 posts)BY DAVID BRENNAN ON 10/7/19 AT 8:11 AM EDT
... As the world reacted to America's sudden abandonment of its most trusted and effective local allies, a tweet from Trump's daughter Ivanka resurfaced, detailing a relevant conflict of interest regarding relations with Turkey.
"Thank you Prime Minister Erdogan for joining us yesterday to celebrate the launch of #TrumpTowers Istanbul!" Ivanka wrote in April 2012. The constructionmade up of two conjoined towersis one of seven current Trump Towers locations.
Trump has promised to keep his business empire separate, handing over control of his commercial operations to sons Eric and Donald Jr. for the duration of his time in office. Trump has refused to fully divest from his empire, in what critics have said was a violation of the Constitution's emoluments clause.
Multiple investigations and reports allege that Trump has been personally profiting from the presidency, using the office to bolster income at his resorts, hotels and other businesses. Foreign officials, for example, have been spending huge sums at his properties, in an effort to ingratiate themselves with his administration ...
https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-tweet-thanking-turkey-erdogan-attending-istanbul-trump-towers-launch-syria-controversy-1463536
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I wonder if this is meant to grab our attention away from something else? But what could it be??? Well, , it's a mystery we'll probably never solve, right Liz?
Cartaphelius
(868 posts)Of course you don't understand. It's genetic thing in your family.
He will through his children under the bus if it will save his sorry ass.
Kinda like your dad. He threw America under the bus to save his failing
Haliburton and then enriched himself to pamper your dumb ass.
Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,726 posts)He never honors his own deals, why should anybody expect him to honor deals other people struck?
We should send him to the Wheel.