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Erdogan Digs In, Says Turkey Won’t Yield To Sanctions Threats From Trump, Pence
On Thursday, Mike Pence threatened to slap sanctions on Turkey if President Recep Tayyip Erdogan doesn't agree to release North Carolina evangelical Christian pastor Andrew Craig Brunson, who is facing more than three decades in a Turkish prison if he's found guilty of having connections to Pennsylvania-based cleric Fethullah Gulen and/or the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (the PKK).
This has an air of absurdity to it befitting of a story about Erdogan. How is it that a Christian pastor from No
Is Hillsdale College Gaining the World and Losing Its Soul?
An institution devoted to “pursuing truth” forges ever-closer ties to a president who constantly lies.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/is-hillsdale-college-gaining-the-world-and-losing-its-soul/565916/
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But two days before Pence addressed Hillsdale, the The lifelong conservative columnist, George Will, had this to say about the sitting vice president:
The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure. And Pence, who has reached this pinnacle by dethroning his benefactor, is augmenting the public stock of useful knowledge. Because his is the authentic voice of today’s lickspittle Republican Party, he clarifies this year’s elections: Vote Republican to ratify groveling as governing.
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