The wily Erdogan meets his match

The Trump-Erdogan gab-fest was all but missed by the mainstream news purveyors today, mainly because they are busy having fake shit-hemorrages over Trump’s supposed spilling of top-secret beans to Lavrov and the Russian ambassador last week. Another media-manufactured tempest in a teacup, but it’s a good one, isn’t it?

First Donny J fires FBI boss Comey to kill that investigation into his collusion with the Ruskies, and then he turns around and shares national secrets with those very same Ruskies!

Holy moly… this man must be stopped, at least if you take your cues from the NYT and the Washington Post!

Those commies… er, I mean Russians, obviously have Trump by the short and curlies.

Trump must be tempted take a few tips from Erdogan on how to deal with pesky media. In America the Trumpists chant lock ‘em up. It’s a feel-good thing, much along the lines of chanting “go Leafs go!” In Turkey they’re just locked up indefinitely, thereby proving that America still has something called a “free press.”

Erdogan dodged a few bullets last summer, quite literally, when his former pal turned arch nemesis Fethulla Gulen launched a surprise attack on this government. Gulen has been cooling his heels a couple of hours north of CIA HQ for what, twenty years now? Does anybody really believe that this leader of a global socio-religious educational organization with millions of followers worldwide could enjoy US hospitality for that long without the express connivance of the highest level of America’s multi-faceted  spook infrastructure?

The CIA may not have invented Gulen, but they’ve certainly nurtured him over the years. Had things gone to plan, the ornery and unpredictable Erdogan would have given way to the infinitely more pliable Fethullah Gulen.

The failure of the coup last summer was a bitter pill for the Deep State, a disappointment trumped only by the election of you-know-who in November.

The string-pullers must have been seething today, and the “free press” did their bit by ignoring the Erdogan-Trump shindig.

Shouldn’t take more than a few days for the Times and the Post to front-page a list of state secrets Trump spilled to the Turks today.