was in on it too. the washington post reports that giuliani privately urged trump to eject mr. gulen from the united states back in 2017. the same year that general flynn spent a cool 27 days as trump s national security advisor number one. so, here we have both flynn and giuliani fixated on an exiled turkish cleric and donald trump fixated on pleasing the turkish autocrat president who also happens to have one of trump s key businesses, trump tower istanbul, under his domain and trump s eagerness to please erdogan has seen him go so far as to abandon the kurds and making statements like this one. i just want to thank and congratulate, though, president erdogan. he s a friend of mine. and i m glad we didn t have a problem because frankly, he s a hell of a leader and he s a tough man. he s a strong man, and he did the right thing and i really appreciate it and i will
criminal case against him who reportedly had an office in trump tower istanbul. tillerson said no. even more curious, the trump administration so proud of withdrawing from the iran deal, imposing new sanctions, has not yet fined the bank involved in that case. the state owned hulk bank. why not? the trump administration did not respond to questions for comment. then the matter of turkey purchasing the russian s-400 missile defense system, a system pentagon officials say would pose intelligence risk to the u.s. since turkey also purchased u.s. f-35 fighter jets. according to a 2017 law, turkey s purchase of these weapons is supposed to trigger congressionally mandated sanctions against turkey. but trump has not pulled that trigger. why not? the trump administration told us today, quote, we continue to urge turkey to reconsider receipt of the s-400. there s a deliberative process
pennsylvania, forcibly removed to turkey. erdogan accused him of masterminding an attempted coup in 2016 but he denied any involvement and never forcibly removed from the u.s. general flynn is a wonderful man. reporter: flynn admitted to breaking the law by making false statements on federal lobbying disclosure about his work for turkey and then rudy giuliani s representation of a turkish business man with ties to top turkish officials indicted by the u.s. for helping iran to evade billions of dollars in u.s. sanctions. in a meeting with giuliani and trump then secretary of state rex tillerson was pressed to drop a criminal case zens the man who had a office in trump tower istanbul and tillerson said no. more curious the trump administration so proud of withdrawing from the iran deal and imposing new sanctions has not yet fined the bank involved in the case, the hallk bank.