Trump’s Mind-Boggling Dealmaking with Erdoğan

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President Donald Trump walks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan as he arrives aboard Air Force One at Etimesgut Air Base for a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, July 7, 2026.(Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)

Unlike the gangs allegedly behind the ships targeted in the Caribbean, groups backed by Turkey’s leader engage in what federal law defines as terrorist activity.

It may induce vertigo, but let’s try to take President Trump on his own terms.

In the past ten months, he has killed more than 210 people in unauthorized aerial strikes on approximately 63 vessels in the waters off South and Central America. Evidently, we’ve decided to not talk about this killing spree, which disgraces our nation.

It will persist, nevertheless. In Trump’s immunity case, the Supreme Court advised the president that he is immune from prosecution. During the court arguments at the time, the idea that a commander in chief might order assassinations of dubious legality for political reasons was merely ...

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