Trump: U.S. Doesn’t Have Right to ‘Lecture’ Turkey For Jailing Thousands of Dissidents
by Alex Griswold | 9:05 am, July 21st, 2016
In an interview with The New York Times, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that if elected president, he would not pressure the Turkish government to stop curtailing the civil liberties of its citizens.
“[Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan] put nearly 50,000 people in jail or suspend them, suspended thousands of teachers, he imprisoned many in the military and the police, he dismissed a lot of the judiciary. Does this worry you?” asked The Times.
Evidently not. “I think right now when it comes to civil liberties, our country has a lot of problems, and I think it’s very hard for us to get involved in other countries when we don’t know what we are doing and we can’t see straight in our own country,” Trump responded.
Trump cited the riots in Ferguson and Baltimore and other civil unrest. “When the world looks at how bad the United States is, and then we go and talk about civil liberties, I don’t think we’re a very good messenger,” he argued.
“I don’t know that we have a right to lecture,” he continued. “Just look about what’s happening with our country. How are we going to lecture when people are shooting our policemen in cold blood? How are we going to lecture when you see the riots and the horror going on in our own country?”
http://www.mediaite.com/print/trump-u-s-doesnt-have-right-to-lecture-turkey-for-jailing-thousands-of-dissidents/
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