Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump, citing the government shutdown, cancelled a trip to visit troops by Nancy Pelosi, top Trump ally Lindsey Graham…
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump, citing the government shutdown, cancelled a trip to visit troops by Nancy Pelosi, top Trump ally Lindsey Graham turned up in Ankara shaking hands with the Turkish president.
Less than 24 hours after Donald Trump canceled House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s official trip to visit troops in Afghanistan, a trip that Trump himself has yet to make, one of Trump’s top allies in the United States Senate — Judiciary Committee Chair Lindsey Graham of South Carolina — appeared in Turkey on Friday where he was photographed shaking hands with the country’s political strongman President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, according to the Turkish Andalou Agency news service.
Trump’s order cancelling Pelosi’s travel to Afghanistan — a trip that had not been previously announced due to security concerns — came the day after Pelosi postponed Trump’s annual State of the Union address due to the government shutdown, as CNN reported.
But even as Trump in a letter to Pelosi posted on Twitter by Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited the shutdown and the 800,000 federal workers currently not receiving pay as the reason why Pelosi’s trip was not “appropriate,” Graham was apparently on his way to visit Erdoğan — who has become a central figure in the Trump-Russia collusion scandal.
