U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met in Turkey for meetings that stretched for over four hours, more than double the allotted time, but there was no immediate word on any movement toward a cease-fire.
“Syria may have some help with Russia, and that’s fine,” Trump said. “They’ve got a lot of sand over there. So, there’s a lot of sand that they can play with.”The split-screen foreign policy moment proved difficult to reconcile and came during perhaps the darkest moment for the modern U.S.-Turkey relationship and a time of trial for Trump and his Republican Party allies.
Even among top administration officials, there were concerns that the trip lacked achievable goals and had been undermined by Trump before it began. Planning for the trip first began late Monday after the two presidents spoke by phone, and details were still being sorted as the vice president landed in Turkey.
“If Turkey goes onto Syria, that’s between Turkey and Syria, it’s not between Turkey and the United States,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella. The U.S. withdrawal is the worst decision of Trump’s presidency, said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who meets often with the president and is one of his strongest and most important supporters in Congress.
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