Yes, the Horror is Real

     Yes, it's real.
     Katie Rogers of the NY Times decided on a whim to ask the White House if this was real and they'd confirmed to her it was. Then she put it on her Twitter account.
     I'll give you a few moments to read this mercifully brief screed and absorb the impact of it having been written by the most powerful man in the world.
     The "Pastor Brunson" to which he made mention is the holy roller who went to the fiercely Muslim nation of Turkey to essentially proselytize the indigenous people and wound up in prison for two years until Trump and the Senate engineered his release last year not long after Michael Flynn was caught trying to engineer an illegal extraordinary rendition on Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric that Erdogan looks on as his chief political rival. It eventually resulted in two of Flynn's cronies getting charged in the plot last December after it was exposed by former CIA Director James Woolsey.
      Brunson led the Senate in prayer yesterday and actually said with a straight face just a little over a week after Trump threw in his lot with the tyrant who has nuclear ambitions and is essentially holding 50 of our nukes hostage at Incirlik Air Base and fucking over our Kurdish allies will have "supernatural discernment to know who is trustworthy and who is not."
      Yeah, how's that "supernatural discernment" working out for our former allies who are now forging an alliance with the Syrian government and Russians working out for them, Pastor?
      So, if Congress and federal investigators are smart, they'll have another looksee into a possible quid pro quo going on between Trump and Turkey, especially one involving an illegal prisoner exchange of Brunson for Gulen. Brunson meant absolutely nothing to Erdogan except as a bargaining chip (and that may be why he was imprisoned to begin with.). But to give you an idea of how much Erdogan wants Gulen:
      He bribed Michael Flynn with $15,000,000 to get Gulen back to Turkey for what obviously would've been a summary execution.
      This letter was written by someone with a Mr. Bill mind with the soul of Sluggo. Or, perhaps more accurately, this is a letter one could expect from an aging mob boss with dementia to another mob boss. Whichever way you choose to look at it, one fact is abundantly clear- It's scarier than a hundred Halloweens that a letter like this would've been approved through several people and sent to another head of state even if it is a blood-thirsty dictator. And, considering Trump's empty threats last week to destroy Turkey's economy was met with jeers and amounted to nothing, one can easily imagine Erdogan laughing his ass off as the interpreter read this to him.