What Everybody Seems To Be Missing About Trump’s Crazy Letter…

The date.

October 8th. That’s less than 48 hours after Trump got off the phone with Turkey’s President Erdogan, telling him in the first place he was pulling remaining U.S. troops out of Syria.

So the fact that the letter didn’t get publicized (initially by a Fox program host) until the last day or so, is kind of obscuring the fact that it was actually written 10 days ago.

Which means, this isn’t some new example of Trump getting tough, this is an example of Trump getting ignored.

In fact, according to the the government affiliated Daily Sabah newspaper, the Turkish government launched “Operation Peace Spring”: the strongest and most violent assault yet on Kurdish-held areas of Syria on October 9th. One day after the Trump letter.

So this letter didn’t come in response to Turkey going faster and deeper into Syria than anyone in the White House apparently expected, laying waste to fighters who formerly were the U.S.’ staunchest allies in the region against ISIS: the Kurds. This letter came before. And Turkey’s President did it anyway.

We’re not going to review the letter. If you haven’t seen it yet, we’re providing a link to it here, or by clicking on the photo above. (The White House has confirmed that it…