Donald Trump has a significant conflict of interest in his dealings with Turkey. EricLevitz writes
“I can tell that we are going to be cronies.” Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images Last week, Donald Trump called on the governments of China and Ukraine to launch investigations into his chief political rival. Vice-President Mike Pence defended his boss’s statement, arguing that the voting public deserves nothing less than full transparency about its leaders’ potential conflicts of interest.
• The alleged corruption involves a vice-president supporting a foreign policy that was also endorsed by America’s national-security Establishment, and bipartisan congressional leadership.• The potential corruption is years old, and thus, does not pose any risk of undermining current policy. After all, in such a scenario, the stakes of — and evidence for — the alleged act of corruption would be much greater than in the Ukraine-Biden controversy. And the method for achieving greater transparency would be essentially costless: Instead of siccing foreign governments on a domestic political foe, Trump would merely need to uphold a decades-old “good government” norm.
In the days since, the White House’s position has grown more ambiguous. On Tuesday morning, Trump tweeted his support of both the Turkish government and the Kurds — complimenting the former for the grace it displayed in releasing an American pastor it had baselessly imprisoned.
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