Erdogan and his catamite.
PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN: (As interpreted.) Mr. President, my dear friend; distinguished ministers; secretaries; distinguished members of the press, I would like to, at the onset, salute you with my most heartfelt emotions on behalf of myself and my nation.
First and foremost, I would like to thank my dear friend, President Trump, and the First Lady of the United States for being such gracious hosts today.
We’ve managed to comprehensively discuss all the issues in our agendas with Mr. President all throughout the day and the discussions were very sincere. We all agree that we need to further profound our cooperation and that Turkish-American relations should be erected upon a strong and a very healthy foundation. I think we should remain resolved, in order to open a new chapter in our relations, which are in full compliance with our deeply rooted alliance.
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Q First, I would like to just start out getting your general reaction today to the impeachment hearings on the Hill. Do you feel that Democrats made their case? And how did you feel about the Republican performance?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Are you talking about the witch hunt? Is that what you mean? Is that what you’re talking about? I hear it’s a joke. I haven’t watched. I haven’t watched for one minute because I’ve been with the President, which is much more important, as far as I’m concerned.
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Q First, I would like to just start out getting your general reaction today to the impeachment hearings on the Hill. Do you feel that Democrats made their case? And how did you feel about the Republican performance?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Are you talking about the witch hunt? Is that what you mean? Is that what you’re talking about? I hear it’s a joke. I haven’t watched. I haven’t watched for one minute because I’ve been with the President, which is much more important, as far as I’m concerned.
SNIP Q Thank you, Mr. President. I know that you didn’t spend a lot of time glued to the TV today, but there was one moment where Ambassador Bill Taylor recounted a conversation that an aide of his overheard. It was the day after the phone call with Zelensky, on July the 26th, in which the aide says that he overheard you say to Sondland, “How are things going with the — proceeding with investigations?” Sondland repeated back to you, according to this aide, that “Ukraine was prepared to do everything that you wanted it to do.” Can you — was that — is that correct? And can you fill in some more of —
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I know nothing about that. First time I’ve heard it. The one thing I’ve seen that Sondland said was that he did speak to me for a brief moment, and I said, “No quid pro quo under any circumstances.” And that’s true. And the other — I’d never heard this.
In any event, it’s more secondhand information, but I’ve never heard it.
Q Do you recall having a conversation with Sondland (inaudible)?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I don’t recall. No, not at all. Not even a little bit. The only thing — and I guess Sondland has stayed with testimony that there was no quid pro quo. Pure and simple.
And remember, these are not, in many cases, the same Kurds that we were dealing with in the age of Saddam.
Thank you for posting that press briefing.
I hope the full text of the Questions to Erdogan and his Answers, will be heard closely, and that what Erdogan said is much more emphasized, if it becomes available on youtube. It was interesting what was what was included and not included.
Reading between the lines, Erdogan dropped bomb shells, imho.
General Flynn opened his intel operation following his departure from the OBAMA Adm., in Turkey. Flynn set a stage for intel we were Never going to hear, on Erdogan’s cooperation.
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Placemark for gotta read.
Remarks by President Trump and President Erdogan of Turkey in Joint Press Conference
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Disappointed that OAN started off with a question about the hearing.
But maybe they wanted to give Trump a fair chance to respond.; Still.
Turkey is such a delicate foreign policy problem.
Trump is doing great, but it’s so tough.
And thanks for posting this.
Very important.
Thank you for posting this.