Day 89: Trump Joins Hamas in Congratulating Erdogan for Sketchy Referendum Win

Turkey’s president became a whole lot powerful overnight.

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, narrowly won Sunday’s referendum vote that gave him broad new powers, Turkey confirmed yesterday. Erdogan will now have more direct and substantive powers over the country under the new presidential system — instead of a parliamentary system, as before — and can more acutely control the judiciary.

The voting was highly irregular, according to Erdogan’s opponents and neutral monitors.

According to CNN, international election monitors reported that “voters were not provided with adequate information, opposition voices were muzzled and the rules were changed at the last minute” and the legal framework was inadequate for a “genuinely democratic referendum.”

Donald Trump called Erdogan yesterday to congratulate him on the win anyway. (Erdogan was also congratulated by leaders from the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. Most European and democratic nations have remained tight-lipped on the results of the vote.)

Trump’s call has some questioning his judgment, as the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff (D-CA) did.

Others questioned Trump’s motives and immediately saw the connection between business dealings …

…and the call.

Or maybe it was because disgraced former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn was a foreign agent of Turkey, others conjectured.

Regardless, every week of Trump’s presidency seems to have different stories with different actors in different countries that end with him praising autocrats and/or profiting.

89 days in, 1373 to go

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