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From the End of WWI until the Syrians kicked them out soon after WWII,

A head-turning letter President Donald Trump wrote to his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan apparently ended up in the trash, according to a senior Turkish official.

Images of the letter from Trump attempting to pressure Erdogan not to attack U.S.-allied Kurds in Syria became public on Wednesday and drew ridicule from critics in Washington.

But it apparently angered no one more than the recipient himself, according to the official, who recounted the incident to a Turkish newspaper on Thursday.

“The letter was written on 9 October. Erdogan rejected the offer of mediation and it was thrown into the trash. The clearest answer to this letter was the reply given at 4pm on 9 October. This is was the start of Operation Peace Spring,” the official told local newspaper Yeni Safak.

...are we in agreement that there has been a witch hunt for Trump since his announcement as a candidate?

Do you agree that what Biden did in threatening to withhold $1B unless they fired the prosecutor as basically the same exact thing?

Do you agree that what Biden did in threatening to withhold $1B unless they fired the prosecutor as basically the same exact thing?

I know, the smear machine cranked up that convenient story about protecting Hunter Biden but there is no corroboration that protecting his son was the V.P.s motive, nor any allegation that anything either Biden did was illegal.

U.S. Says It Made 'Ceasefire' Deal in Syria But Turkey and Kurdish Forces Reject Claim

Joe should have told his son not to take a job like that while he was V.P. And Hunter Biden shouldn't have had to be told to begin with.

Among many other things, in his just concluded remarks, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney slightly shifted the White House explanation. He said one reason for the hold up of weapons aid to Ukraine was about the “corruption related to the DNC server.” This needs to be unpacked.

It is just a shard of information. But it is a reference to the Seth Rich/DNC Server conspiracy theory which holds the following …

Not only did Donald Trump not collude with Russia during the 2016 campaign. Russia didn’t even interfere in the election at all. Both were framed by a conspiracy between Ukraine and the DNC. The server is the DNC server that the Russians hacked. It’s ‘missing’, so the conspiracy theory goes, because a cybersecurity firm called Crowdstrike was part of the conspiracy and they made it look like the Russians had hacked the servers when in fact it was an inside job by a disgruntled DNC employee. And which employee? Seth Rich.

You probably know this whole story, Russian propaganda channels and Wikileaks latched on to the idea that Rich, who all evidence suggests died the victim of a random street crime, was the disgruntled leaker and that he was later murdered by Democrats or people associated with the Clintons as part of the conspiracy.

That is what this is about: Russia and Trump were framed. The real election interference was a conspiracy between the DNC and Ukraine. That was why the White House held up military aid. And if there’s any question that this was an offhand remark by Mulvaney, remember: Trump explicitly invoked the “Crowdstrike server” in his call with Zelensky. That is what this is about.

"Sworn affidavit" from a discredited and disgraced ex-prosecutor?

Before he would send military aid passed by congress.