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"Graham also expressed sympathy for Turkey’s “Kurdish problem” and described the Kurds as a “threat.” Those private comments appear to contradict his public statements this week...

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"...in which he criticized Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of northern Syria because it’s “wrong to abandon the Kurds, who have been strong allies against” the Islamic State.
“Your YPG Kurdish problem is a big problem,” Graham told the pranksters."
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"The pranksters managed to get Graham on the phone again a few days after the first call. In the second call, Graham says he met with Trump to discuss what the [fake] 'defense minister' had told him."

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"And this case involving the Turkish bank, he’s very sensitive to that,' he said of Trump. “The president wants to be helpful, within the limits of his power.”

Bloomberg last night: Trump reportedly told Tillerson in 2017 to get DOJ to drop that case --

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Ahem.

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WaPo: “Russia sees leverage as Ukraine squirms amid impeachment drama”
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“Russian officials are already publicly telling Ukrainians (and the rest of the world) that the United States has proved itself to be an unreliable friend”
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"The president used Pence to tell Zelensky that US aid was still being withheld while demanding action on corruption. At that time — following Trump’s call with Zelenksy — Ukraine probably understood action on corruption to include investigating Biden"

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SCOOP: Lindsey Graham was pranked by the same Russians who got to Adam Schiff. In a call with the "Turkish defense minister," he called the Kurdish YPG a "threat" and said Trump "wants to be helpful, within the limits of his power" in the Reza Zarrab case. politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
Bloomberg reported last night that Trump pressured Tillerson to ask DOJ to drop the Zarrab case. Graham suggested Trump would try to help as best he could. “I think President Trump likes President Erdogan. I think he’s a strong man and we need to deal with strong people."
In the call, Graham was concerned w/getting Turkey back into the F-35 program & urged the “defense minister” to refrain from using Russia’s S-400 system. But Graham also expressed sympathy for Turkey’s “Kurdish problem” and described Kurds as a “threat.” politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
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It’s a big one, folks
EXCLUSIVE: Russians prank-called Lindsey Graham, posing as Turkey’s defense minister.

“They got him,” Graham’s spox admitted to @NatashaBertrand.

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@NatashaBertrand Graham expressed sympathy for Turkey’s “Kurdish problem” & described the Kurds as a “threat,” contradicting his public statements.

“I told Trump that Obama made a huge mistake in relying on the YPG Kurds,” Graham said.

(Same pranksters who got Schiff!)

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It’s extraordinary just how much BS gets created in people’s minds.

I never once expressed “support” for #Turkey’s #Afrin operation.

- Did I say it was inevitable? Yes.
- Did I observe it & comment on its advance vis-a-vis broader #Syria dynamics (i.e. my job)? Yes.
My critique has always been about the imbalance/s created in northern #Syria by U.S. counter-#ISIS policy.

The #YPG was/is the #PKK - all U.S. officials admit that in private. That didn’t necessarily have to preclude working with them, but ignoring it caused big, big problems.
#pt: As an analyst of terrorist groups, I did see a certain irony & short-sightedness in the words of one top, serving U.S. official, “allying with a terrorist group (#PKK) to fight another terrorist group (#ISIS).”

It’s got nothing to do with any position on #Kurds, whatsoever.
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