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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn 2016, Hillary Clinton Warned Trump Might Abandon Kurd Allies Over Turkish Business Interests
Quote: The national press spent much of September 2016 breathlessly reporting on Hillary Clintons every cough, practically begging readers and viewers to ponder whether she might drop dead before Election Day. Meanwhile, Clinton was thinking over questions she had about Donald Trumps business dealings in foreign countries, like Iran and Turkey.
In a tweet thread that garnered relatively little attention in 2016, the Democratic nominee for president shared a Newsweek article about Trumps foreign dealings by Kurt Eichenwald and posted a series of followup tweets with her own thoughts and questions.
In one tweet, she shared a screenshot in which she singled out two paragraphs from the Eichenwald piece, highlighting a section she found especially concerningone in which the author noted that Trump, whose numerous business dealings in Turkey include two Trump Towers in Istanbul, Turkey, would be in direct financial and political conflict with Turkey from the moment he was sworn into office.
When faced with the prospect of losing the millions of dollars that flow into the Trump Organization each year from that Istanbul property, what position would President Trump take on the important issues involving Turkish-American relations, including the countrys role in the fight against ISIS? the highlighted portion reads.
The second paragraph in Clintons tweeted screenshot poses another question:
Turkey is at war with the Kurds, Americas allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Kurdish insurgent groups are in armed conflict with Turkey, demanding an independent Kurdistan. If Turkey cuts off the Trump Organizations cash flow from Istanbul, will Trump, who has shown many times how petty and impulsive he can be, allow that to influence how the U.S. juggles the interests of these two critical allies?
Given that youve already questioned our commitments to NATO allies, what is your answer to this? Clinton asked in the Sept. 14, 2016 tweet.
More: http://www.deepsouthvoice.com/index.php/2019/10/09/in-2016-hillary-clinton-warned-trump-might-abandon-the-kurds-over-turkey-business-interests/
MustLoveBeagles
(11,612 posts)bdamomma
(63,875 posts)nt
Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)Did anyone listen? No. The "email's" and her "cough" caught the interest.
I'm still angry; don't know if I'll ever get over the shocking injustice to HRC and our nation.
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)A country that carries the moral lead in the world, giving it up so quickly???
This is a walking disaster. I don't know how the U.S. will recover from it...
barbtries
(28,799 posts)even those who to this day worship trump.
calimary
(81,322 posts)He cheated to win. Cheated - with help from the fucking RUSSIANS. An ENEMY of America helped him win (gee, wonder why theyd do something like THAT?).
Hell NEVER be a legitimately-elected president. Not in my book, anyway. Thats why we MUST impeach, at the very least. We MUST leave a mark by his name - on the record and for the history books.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)what has been lost, destroyed under tRump
MFM008
(19,816 posts)So "establishment " she lost election to a vile criminal.
And emails.
triron
(22,007 posts)needs his ass to be thrown into jail he played a part in the 2016 election, too yuk yuking it up with FOX saying there was something big coming. He's a criminal too.
Beartracks
(12,816 posts)Lady_Chat
(561 posts)she was 100% right on the money. He is, without a doubt, Putin's puppet.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)He'll do the happy yuk-yuk dance for anyone who pours a little honey in his ear or slips a few dollars into his pocket.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)It puts the emoluments on its skin or else it gets the hose again?
The Silence of the Trumps. Cannibal Sphincter eating us all alive.
erronis
(15,303 posts)IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)It's absolutely disgusting that GOP voters think it's a good thing for political leaders to have this sort of conflict of interest in international business dealings over careers in government service and policy. Trump has gone against all of his military and intelligence and most Republican advisors in throwing the Kurdish people to their deaths like this.
Turkey is not our ally just because we have 5000 Air Force personnel stationed at Incirlik air base. We have thousands of soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia and Qatar and other countries who still financed terror against the US. Turkey has been buying a large portion of ISIS oil giving them money to fight against US soldiers in Syria and Iraq.
It's pretty sick that anyone would think the US should put Turkey's interests first over the Kurds.
dalton99a
(81,516 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)erronis
(15,303 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)yet even some DUers fell for the crap propaganda against her
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)def. having or showing knowledge of events before they take place:
Seems about right!
peggysue2
(10,832 posts)Again and again, she tried. Too many dismissed the warnings as pure political strategy or deflections from the faux accusations and smears concocted by Trump and the right-wing slime merchants.
She tried to warn us. And she was right each and every time.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)people still today talk about how many the Clintons "murdered"
triron
(22,007 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)lunamagica
(9,967 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,341 posts)DEPLORABLES don't always watch Fox News.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)Coulda.shoulda brought this up.
triron
(22,007 posts)triron
(22,007 posts)Cha
(297,321 posts)fuckers like "but her emails m$m" wanted to shut her down.
calimary
(81,322 posts)At our house, shes known as Andrea oh but her emails! Mitchell.
iluvtennis
(19,863 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)republican controlled Senate have for this act (abandoning Kurdish allies)? I am sick of the 'he's new to the job', he's learning, he's etc. etc. etc. When will they finally admit that they were wrong, and to track each of rump's acts as one of helping himself and his properties in some manner? It isn't about Country w/ rump and his allies/cronies. It's about the money, and acclamation by rump's thugs at his rallies and such.
And they talk about treason? I'd say that they need to look more closely at themselves first, examine the history already of those already convicted of wrongdoing under rump's administration. The evidence is right there in front of everyone. Too much crap and such, that one can't hide it any longer.