Maddow previews explosive Newsweek story that hints at Turkeys blackmail of Trump

[still_one]

Source: Newsweek/RawStory

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.

According to Maddow, Trump has a business relationship with the Doğan family, owners of Doğan Holding, which is building twin towers in Turkey bearing the Trump name for which the Trump family stands to make millions of dollars.

“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.”

Noting that Trump praised the man to Turkish President Erdoğan, Maddow continued.

“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.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/its-happening-maddow-previews-explosive-newsweek-story-that-hints-at-turkeys-blackmail-of-trump/

[cstanleytech]

1. If Trump fails as president and is indicted I hope to god he takes the entire Republican party

with him as they are co-conspirators to this travesty.

[Adsos Letter]

2. I keep thinking we're going to come out the other side of this thing with a President Pence.

And a huge step toward theocracy.

[Sunlei]

5. anything could happen by 1/20/2017. Turkey was destablised very quickly & IMO by Russia.

[Adsos Letter]

8. So many irons in the fire.

[Tragl1]

20. At this point

I'd take Darth Vader Pence over Emporer Palpatine Trump, man this Trump shit is just surreal. I'm just going to sit here in stunned silence as I think about awful the whole situation is. I need coffee, before disillusionment sets in.

[hollowdweller]

4. Will only happen if the Dems give a push.

Obama missed a golden opportunity when he failed to nail the coffin of the GOP shut after the wars and financial collapse.

Instead he wanted to make nice.

We will have another opportunity after the GOP and Trump fuck it up again.

Lets hope we choose leadership with enough concern for the country to slap the GOP back into place before they turn us into peasants and start a civil war.

[cstanleytech]

9. I honestly dont blame Obama as the political situation gave the power to the Republicans

but I do wish he had pushed harder to fix the gerrymandering as that might have helped prevent this BS.

[bettyellen]

23. Make nice? They were in power all but five non-sequential months of his eight years!

[Sunlei]

3. Trump gave the names of people to arrest in Turkey so he wouldn't have to pay them anymore.

[Brother Buzz]

10. They were paying trump

If the owners of the towers are out of business, the Trump licensing fees dries up; Trump et al. loses money.

[Sunlei]

11. so? the government will place in 'approved' CEOs and the doors remain open. thousands of people

were ruined/disappeared into prisons by Turkeys president.

[Brother Buzz]

12. Trump et al. loses money

[Sunlei]

13. so?, loss is a deduction against paying any future income taxes. Thats why republicans love him.

[cilla4progress]

6. Fucker is already destablizing

the world

[Hortensis]

19. Yes. Scary, actually, how quickly it's happening.

[Cha]

7. Yay! Thank you, stillone!

Just wow.. the law of unintended consequences.

[brer cat]

14. Untangling trump's myriad knots of conflicts

will be a never ending job. I really appreciate Kurt Eichenwald's work on this.

Thanks for alerting us to one more for the pile, still_one.

[Feeling the Bern]

15. The problem with being corrupt in the age of instant information is tangled webs of deceit

unwind quickly because things are discovered at lightning speed.

[jumptheshadow]

16. Ha, not fast enough for my taste (nt)

[Feeling the Bern]

17. same here, but faster than before.

[Vinca]

18. This is the tiniest tip of the iceberg.

[rockfordfile]

21. I heard a person use the word TrumpTrash

The political republicans are TrumpTrash.

[PearliePoo2]

22. Shout out to Kurt Eichenwald for his great in-depth article, but...

given dump's vengeance, I seriously wonder if he needs to fear for his safety?

K&R

[RonniePudding]

24. Probably not

Newsweek isn't what it once was. He was churning out scoop after scoop during the campaign and didn't seem to get much notice which speaks to the current state of journalism.

[yurbud]

25. kick

[bathroommonkey76]

26. Flynn, Turkey, Russia... n/t