Rachel Maddow previews "explosive" Newsweek story that hints at Turkey's blackmail of Trump

[Miles Archer]

‘It’s happening’: Maddow previews ‘explosive’ Newsweek story that hints at Turkey’s blackmail of Trump

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, MSNBC’s 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 Trump’s 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 Turkey’s 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 that’s 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]

1. The plot thickens.

Turkey is at loggerheads with his other foreign master Russia over Syria and ISIS.

[msongs]

2. trump voters wont care. all many of them want is to work in the mines again nt

[JenniferJuniper]

4. Trump voters don't matter to anyone anymore including him.

This isn't about the mouth breathers anymore.

[Girard442]

3. Sounds awful, but it's IOKIYAR on steroids now.

Trump could bite the head off a baby and still be inaugurated.

[lame54]

5. What can possibly be used to blackmail trump...

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]

6. I am already seeing tweets and 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]

7. This Just Underscores The Failure of the Modern Media...

...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]

8. Trump: The walking Constitutional Crisis

And people who like to call themselves "Americans" voted for him