White House: Trump’s call to Erdogan wasn’t an endorsement of referendum results

[mystery-ak]

White House: Trump’s call to Erdogan wasn’t an endorsement of referendum results

By Madeline Conway

04/18/17 04:14 PM EDT


President Donald Trump’s call congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the referendum vote consolidating his power was not necessarily an endorsement or acceptance of the results, the White House said Tuesday.

The outcome of the vote, which would amend Turkey’s constitution to grant the country’s autocratic president significantly more power, is being contested, and Trump surprised some in Washington on Monday when the White House said he had called Erdogan to congratulate him. Experts and other American leaders, including some Republicans, have responded to the vote by framing it as hugely damaging to democracy in Turkey.

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[geronl]

lol!

What a joke.

[Sanguine]

President Donald Trump’s call congratulating Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the referendum vote consolidating his power was not necessarily an endorsement or acceptance of the results

That's just a wee bit contradictory.  Well, no, it's full blown contradictory.

[Cripplecreek]

"Not Necessarily" 

[corbe]

Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Wisconsin on Tuesday, principal deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders seemed to try to reframe the call, saying that Trump’s “bigger point and priority” with the call was to “talk about shared interests as a NATO ally and a partner there.”

    This Guy thinks he could sell ice to an Eskimo, and if those Eskimos are like some here, they'd buy the Fridge and deep freeze also.

[bigheadfred]

uh huh

I've been outside trying to scrape that off the bottom of my shoe...

[edpc]

Probably looking for some tips on how to do it here, because he has a 'great mind,' a 'really big heart,' and he'd be a very benevolent dictator.