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‘Don’t Be a Tough Guy’: Trump’s Letter to Erdogan
Fox Business host Trish Regan shared a letter President Donald Trump sent to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Oct. 9. In it, he said he can “destroy” the Turkish economy if Erdogan does not “work out a deal” on the situation in Syria.
Here’s Regan’s tweet that launched the latest news cycle.
EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a copy of @realDonaldTrump’s letter to #Erdogan. @POTUS warns him to not “be a tough guy! Don’t be a fool!” Says he could destroy Turkey’s economy if #Syria is not resolved in a humane way. Details tonight at 8pm #TrishRegan #FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/9BoSGlbRyt
— Trish Regan (@trish_regan) October 16, 2019
What do you think about Trump’s letter? Crazy? Great? The end of the world or no biggie?
Published in Foreign Policy, Politics
Donald Trump writing like Donald Trump talks. It lacks the diplomatic niceties that everyone gets everyone all moist (in the eyes, of course.)
Hard to say. What was Trump’s goal in writing this? To get Erdogan to back down? To get Erdogan to overstep? To get Democrats to publicly support a war with a NATO partner?
Anyway, where did Regan get this? How do we even know it’s real?
People are making fun of him for not having flowery rhetoric
I’m more or less suprised there’s not an expletive in there.
I’m trying to picture what the equivalent 20 page missive from John Kerry would look like. I like this better. I hope it is a true account.
That was my first thought.
But okay, assuming it’s real, . . . I have mixed feelings.
On the one hand, some people only understand the tough language.
On the other hand, “Don’t be a fool” is not how I would have closed it out. I would have opened and closed with the positive “Let’s make a great deal” language.
This is evidence that Trump believes he has an Unbelievable hand. Why else make the letter public ? The tactical reason to make it public, is to let the world know that Erdogan has been warned.
Check out the Sundance for the low-down.
When Trump decided to pull out of Syria, and agreed with the Turkish leader, upon certain conditions, that if “all didn’t go as he agreed to, he could and would destroy the Turkish economy, I felt that was a very bad plan. The US should not openly agree to any deal, pending cooperation with the follow-up that we could destroy another country’s economy. The two do not go together. You either agree on a deal militarily, gaining benefits for both countries, or don’t go through with it. These “Tsars” as has been described of Turkey and others, only care about the US getting out of their way. They’ll deal with the fall-out later. Trump is walking a delicate rope here.
While I have mixed feelings on the Turkish invasion and how it come to pass, I am full on certain if the United States were currently engaged in a military conflict in Syria involving NATO ally Turkey, the Kurds, Assad/Syria, Russia, Iran, the (D)/MSM combine heads would be exploding in relentless unified condemnation of Trump …. adding one more charge to the impeachment proceedings …. WAR CRIMINAL!!!
I think this blocks Erdogan from any deal. Once he has been publicly threatened, he cannot remain the strong horse if he gives in. I agree with the analysts who say it is not “the Kurds” we have “betrayed” but a group we should not have chosen in the first place. (Trump was dealt a bad hand, of course) and that Turkey is important to us.
First draft was
Hey, I’ve been very unexpectedly pleased with Trump as POTUS, plan to vote for him again in 2020 but that letter is embarrassing.
If real. Who benefits from leaking such things? Why would he write a letter? Could be a deep state deep fake.
I think it is a forgery. It would not be the first time the media have produced a forgery to advance the narrative.
I wish I could find it, but when Trump was running for office in 2016, an Iranian diplomat made the comment that he preferred Trump to John Kerry. Too funny and completely understandable. :-)
Looking further at this memo, I am truly shocked at what I have found. My response can be found here:
http://ricochet.com/687752/it-is-with-heavy-heart-that-i-say-we-must-impeach/
I just want to know what the “Pastor Brunson” big stick was. How did he get Erdogan to release him? Pretty savvy move.
Weren’t there steel tariffs or some such?
Why just a few days ago it was
Trump gives Turkey the Green Light to invade Syria
Trump threatens Turkey after giving the Green Light
and
President endorses Turkish military operation in … blah blah blah.
This puts lie to that.
One should just be thankful there are no gross misspellings. The letter reads like it was writen by a very stupid person, which of course it was. It isn’t about the sub third grade vocabulary, but its sheer laughable nature of the whole thing. It neither sounds stern or inviting. It sounds like a kid threatening his parents that they will face grave consequence if he is not given chocolate ice cream for desert instead of fruit. I dare say if this were written by a child it would be cute.
One of our members wonders if it is real and not some Deep State fake, why would Trump release this he wonders? Because Trump is a moron and actually thinks this letter is effective. The best policy moves of the Trump administration were the results of smarter and better people around him, all of whom are gone replaced by servile sycophants. Four more years means more of this nonsense with diminishingly fewer up sides.
I’m sure Trumps fans here will find away to find the secret genius in this letter. They always do.
For his part Edrogan apparently threw the letter in the trash.
Pot, meet kettle.
Remember the rule during the Trump era: wait at least three days after every “blockbuster scandal!” for the actual truth to come out. Early declarations usually end up making people look like fools.
Well, I guess the letter worked.
Did he, tho’?
YPG fighters would disagree with your assessment. See the news article linked above.
Haha. So the letter was real and it worked. (For the time being.)