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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLindsey Graham was pranked by the same Russians who got to Adam Schiff.
Natasha Bertrand @NatashaBertrand
SCOOP: Lindsey Graham was pranked by the same Russians who got to Adam Schiff. In a call with the "Turkish defense minister," he called the Kurdish YPG a "threat" and said Trump "wants to be helpful, within the limits of his power" in the Reza Zarrab case.
Link to tweet
Lindsey Graham dishes on Trump in hoax calls with Russians
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/10/lindsey-graham-trump-hoax-call-043991
The substance of Grahams conversation with Stolyarov, who was posing as Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, is newly relevant in light of the South Carolina senators push for sanctions on Turkey as punishment for their offensive against the Kurds in northern Syria. Graham labeled the Kurds a threat to Turkey in the call, seemingly contradicting what he has said publicly in recent days.
Graham also mentions Trumps personal interest in a Turkish bank case in the call that appears to refer to a U.S. case involving Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader and client of Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Trump had asked then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in 2017 to help persuade the Justice Department to drop the Zarrab case.
The pranksters conversation with Graham, a Trump ally who has the presidents ear on national security issues, also raises obvious questions about potential security breaches. While the pranks appear on their face to have been relatively harmless, the incident suggests its getting easier for bad actors to elicit sensitive information from policymakers. Stolyarov provided POLITICO with a recording of their call.
In the call, Graham was primarily concerned with getting Turkey back into the F-35 program and urging the defense minister to refrain from using Russias S-400 anti-aircraft weapon system, which was fully delivered to Turkey last month in defiance of requests from the U.S. and NATO.
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Lindsey Graham was pranked by the same Russians who got to Adam Schiff. (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Oct 2019
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lame54
(35,293 posts)1. Did Schiff fall for it?