Watch CNN's Tapper and MSNBC's Wallace's Stunning Live Reactions to Trump's Turkey Letter

[highplainsdem]

From Mediaite, with video at the link:


https://www.mediaite.com/trump/watch-cnns-tapper-and-msnbcs-wallaces-stunning-live-reactions-to-trumps-turkey-letter-i-thought-it-was-a-hoax/

At roughly the same time, in the waning moments of their respective 4 p.m. broadcasts Thursday, CNN’s Jake Tapper and MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace got their hands on the letter (broken by Fox Business) from President Donald Trump to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. And the reaction from Tapper and Wallace was precisely the same.

Utter bewilderment.

“I saw this letter and thought it was a joke,” Tapper said Wednesday on The Lead. “I thought it was a hoax.”

But no, it is very real.

“Let’s work out a good deal! You don’t want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don’t want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy — and I will.” Trump wrote. He added, “Don’t be a tough guy. Don’t be a fool! I will call you later.”

Wallace, too, was stunned. She noted, like Tapper, that she didn’t run with the letter until the White House confirmed its authenticity.

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After reading the letter in full, while laughing at one point, Wallace added, “I have no words.”

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[Maru Kitteh]

1. Only thing left to do is laugh out cry

Or both

[Midnight Writer]

2. "A perfect letter. A beautiful letter. A lot of people read this and said 'What a perfect letter!'"

[Poiuyt]

6. "And he said to me, 'Sir, that's a beautiful letter.' But I would never say that."

[rusty quoin]

3. Only he could dictate that. It's just like his tweets.

[stopdiggin]

4. where are his handlers?

I mean this is some scary sh*t .. and anybody with more than an 8th grade education knows that it reflects poorly. In fact is laughably inept. So how does this illiterate script make it's way OUT of the White House? Did Trump -- in the face of pleading and crying on the part of his staff -- insist that this letter must be in his own two syllable words? And then released?

[LuckyLib]

5. Doesn't anyone in the WH stand up to him? Isn't there an adult at the day care center?

They must all be cowering in the corners.

[lastlib]

7. In fetal positions. Sucking their thumbs.

Eighth-graders could write a better letter than he did. Jeezus Henry Christ--THIS is our leadership???