NEWSWEEK story in the AM, Conflict Zone, pic of the Con by Eichenwald [View all]

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Rachel showed the cover. They will publish new allegations of a foreign country (Turkey) blackmailing our government because of a set of trump towers.

Kurt Eichenwald ‏@kurteichenwald 4h4 hours ago

My latest @Newsweek investigative cover story about Trump will be dropping tomorrow at 7:00 AM Eastern time at http://newsweek.com .

“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?”

and so it begins