Yes, This Completely Unhinged Letter From Trump To Erdogan Is Real | Talking Points Memo

Yes, it’s real.

A frantic, unhinged, “no way it’s real” letter from President Donald Trump to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is authentic, the White House confirmed to TPM Wednesday.


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“Let’s work out a deal!” Trump wrote to Erdogan. “You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy—and I will.”

That’s some powerful stuff there, WOWEE!!

VERY compelling…:unamused:

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It’s a typical one thug to another letter.

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Groucho Marx: “He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

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If the letter was posted to the Onion, it would be criticized as too crazy/unrealistic to be funny.

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He’s an idiot and assumes everyone else is as well. I hope we’re seeing the end of him.

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Trump diplomacy in action!

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Meanwhile…

Laicie Heeley, a fellow with the Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program at the Stimson Center: “From a security point of view, it’s a roll of the dice to continue to have approximately 50 of America’s nuclear weapons stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, just 70 miles from the Syrian border.”

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If they’re actually there. I still think that they yanked them the night of the coup attempt and never brought them back.

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And just along the way, Trump encloses a letter sent to him by the Kurdish leader, in order to demonstrate to Erdogan that the latter can extract a lot of concessions. Basically, Trump again betrays the Kurds by giving away their negotiation position to their opponents.

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He definitely wrote that one himself.

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Dump is like a child. Mind you, he’s like a child in possession of the nuclear football, but he has the emotional and intellectual capacity of a below average child nonetheless.

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Listen you stupid Orange Blimp, you are responsible for the killing of the Kurds. Erdogan is no paragon of virtue, but Trump started this. Effin Moron.

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The reviews are in.

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fixed

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Yeah, but he did it “confidentially,” so everything’s cool.

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Yes, This Completely Unhinged Letter From Trump To Erdogan Is Real

Just bear in mind that Trish Regan, who released it, works for Fox.

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That letter is some crazy ass shit!

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Another “Peefect” interaction with a head of state.

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