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Well, now, as of tomorrow, Eichenwald was about to publish new allegations
that in at least one case, a foreign government may have already taken
action to threaten the private business interests of the president-elect as
a way of trying to get something that that foreign country wants from the
U.S. government.
Again, this is “Newsweek” – “Newsweek” reporting. It`s not out yet. We
have an advanced preview. This is exclusive to us.
And this is a serious allegation, but it`s not a complicated one. It
starts with something called the Trump Towers, towers, plural, a twin
building complex in Turkey that the president-elect didn`t build himself
but he`s being paid a lot of money to allow his name to be put on the
building, Trump Towers. The company that built the towers is being called
Dogan. At least, I think that`s how you pronounce it. Forgive my
pronunciation if I`m getting that wrong from the Turkish. But this is the
Dogan family.
The guy who`s right next to Trump in the front row there, that`s the
patriarch. He`s the founder of the company. He`s described now mostly as
sort of a figure head, even though he founded the company. He`s basically
passed the business onto his family.
The other guy in the other picture who`s not Trump, the gun on the second
row, looking away from the camera, he is the son-in-law of the founder.
He`s married to the founder`s daughter. He has a key operational role in
the company now, particularly since the patriarch has sort of moved into
semi-retirement. But that, the son-in-law there who`s circled there, he
had the biggest role in this Trump-branded twin tower complex in Istanbul.
And now we get to the nut of it, because the day after our presidential
election in this country, one of the world leaders who called up Trump
Tower and spoke with the president-elect was the president of Turkey. And
one of the perk up your ears strange things reported about that call is
that while Donald Trump was on the phone taking that congratulatory phone
call from the president of Turkey, in that same call, Mr. Trump brought up
to the president of Turkey by name that executive from the Dogan company,
the guy who was the key guy on Trump`s big twin towers business deal in
Istanbul.
Mr. Trump reportedly named that executive and specifically praised this
guy, this executive at the Dogan Company. He praised him by name to the
president of Turkey while taking he`s this political congratulations call
from the country`s president.
Well, now, “Newsweek” reports that Turkey has figured out how to turn that
to their advantage and how to put the president of the United States over a
barrel in the process. On December 1st, the top representative of the
Dogan Company in Ankara, which is Turkey`s capital city, got arrested by
the Turkish police.
Again, Trump as president-elect had taken an official call from the Turkish
president, and used that occasion to tell the Turkish president how much
this one particular company meant to him, going so far as to name specific
executives and then the Turkish president had one of the top executives
from that company arrested, on the basis of what “Newsweek” described as
threadbare allegations. The Turkish president is claiming that the
executive from this company that`s doing business with Trump, says the
executive from that company that they arrested and the founder of the
company as well, the Turkish president says they are both tied to the
attempted military coup that happened in Turkey this summer.
Turkey desperately wants the U.S. government to extradite a Turkish imam
who lives in Pennsylvania now. He`s a legal permanent U.S. president.
They want to blame him for that coup. They want the U.S. to ship him over
to Turkey. So far, the U.S. government has said no to that, they`re not
extraditing him.
But if that`s what you wanted, what if you could squeeze the personal
financial interests of the American president as a way to get what you want
from the American government? I mean, the Trump family and the president-
elect himself, they stand to make millions of dollars from their
relationship with the Dogan Group in Turkey. That will presumably stop if
the Dogan Group in Turkey all gets locked up. So, they started locking
them up. Nice leverage, right?
It would be one thing if it was business leverage, but it`s leverage
against all of us as Americans. Quoting from this “Newsweek” article that
is out tomorrow, quote, “If the Turkish government puts more pressure on
the company that`s paying millions of dollars to Trump and his children,
revenue flowing from the tower complex in Istanbul could be cut off. That
means the Turkish president has leverage with Trump, who will soon have the
power to get the Turkish imam from Pennsylvania back to Turkey.”
A financier with contacts in the Turkish government explained the dynamic
to Newsweek” as follows, quote, “The Turkish president has something he
believes Trump wants, namely, money, and Trump has someone the Turkish
president desperately wants.”
more:
http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2016-12-12
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