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Trump Congratulates Erdogan on Reelection, Praises Strongman Leader As a ‘Friend’ Who ‘Loves His Country’

Trump Congratulates Erdogan on Reelection, Praises Strongman Leader As a ‘Friend’ Who ‘Loves His Country’

AP Photograph/Alex Brandon, File Former president and 2024 GOP frontrunner, Donald Trump, congratulated Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Sunday after he declared victory in Turkey’s presidential election. Erdogan, who has been in power because 2002, gained a run-off election over Kemal Kilicdaroglu, who received 47.9 % of the vote to Erdogan’s […]

 
 

Ben Sasse Rips His Own Party as ‘Increasingly’ Focused on the ‘Grievances of the Angriest, Oldest Folks’ and Wanting a ‘Strongman Daddy Figure’

Republican Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) supplied some tough like to his personal birthday celebration in a speech on Thursday night. Sasse spent much of the speech — on the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library as part of its “A Time for Choosing” sequence — tearing into the leadership of the Democratic […]