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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/its-happening-maddow-previews-explosive-newsweek-story-that-hints-at-turkeys-blackmail-of-trump/
In a preview of a Newsweek article due to be released Tuesday morning, MSNBCs Rachel Maddow explained that writer Kurt Eichenwald has uncovered evidence that President-elect Donald Trump may have already been compromised by a foreign leader holding the power to threaten his overseas holdings to gain a political advantage.
The day after our presidential election in this country, one of the world leaders who called up Trump tower and spoke with the president-elect was the president of Turkey, Maddow explained. And one of the perk up your ears strange things reported about that call is that while Donald Trump was on the phone taking that congratulatory phone call from the president of Turkey, in that same call, Mr. Trump brought up to the president of Turkey by name that executive from the Doğan company, the guy who was the key guy on Trumps big twin towers in Istanbul.
Now Newsweek reports that Turkey has figured out how to turn that to their advantage and how to put the president of the United States over a barrel in the process, Maddow explained. On December 1st, the top representative of the Doğan company, in Turkeys capital city, got arrested by the Turkish police. Again, Trump as president-elect had taken an official call from the Turkish president and used that occasion to tell the Turkish president how much this one particular company meant to him, going so far as to name specific executives.
Turkey desperately wants the U.S. government to extradite an imam (Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen), Maddow explained. They (the U.S.) have said that they are not extraditing him. But if thats what you wanted, what if you could squeeze the personal financial interests of the American president as a way to get what you want from the American government?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Turkey is at loggerheads with his other foreign master Russia over Syria and ISIS.
msongs
(67,465 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)This isn't about the mouth breathers anymore.
Girard442
(6,087 posts)Trump could bite the head off a baby and still be inaugurated.
lame54
(35,339 posts)No skeleton is depraved enough to make anybody care
And if they try squeezing his business interest he'll just bomb the hell out of them
radical noodle
(8,016 posts)from Trump voters who are backing away from him. Those are primarily the ones who thought he was going to govern for the good of the people and are now seeing he's going to govern for the good of Trump.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)...if this were during the election, the media would also be giving equal time to yet another discussion of Hillary's e-mails as though it were as important as a President being subject to blackmail with the American people having no way to know the extent of his conflicts or the degree to which he has been compromised.
world wide wally
(21,758 posts)And people who like to call themselves "Americans" voted for him