on Massachusetts Avenue in Washington DC in May, 2017.
He allowed Erdoğan's "security detail" to attack protesters and chumpy did nothing. He refused to stop it. He refused to say anything about it.
On May 16, 2017, about a dozen members of the security detail of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, attacked a group of mostly American protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. The bodyguards overran local police officers, punched and choked demonstrators, then kicked them repeatedly as they lay on the ground. Nine people were hospitalized for concussions, lacerations, and other injuries.
The attack occurred shortly after Erdoğan’s first official meeting with President Donald Trump, at the White House. Erdoğan had just arrived at the residence after that meeting. He was captured on video speaking to the head of his security team, who appeared to give an order to a nearby bodyguard; the bodyguard nodded and walked over to a cluster of security personnel, who then rushed the protesters. (They’d been demonstrating against the Turkish leader, about 100 yards away.) Erdoğan watched the attack impassively.
The reaction in Washington was furious. The House of Representatives voted 397–0 in favor of a resolution to bring the perpetrators to justice. Senator John McCain called for the expulsion of the Turkish ambassador. Federal prosecutors eventually indicted 15 of Erdoğan’s bodyguards, though all were back in Turkey by then.
Less troubled by the incident was Trump, who was silent in the aftermath of the attack and has subsequently demurred when reporters have asked him about it. He offered no public comfort to the victims of the attack, no rebuke to the perpetrators, no statement of support for the bedrock rights of free assembly and free expression. Sean Spicer, then the White House press secretary, referred reporters to a State Department communiqué condemning the attack, and declined to comment further.
Allowing other countries to attack people in the US IS what the abomination is all about.
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