Turkey seems to have different idea’s….
And are crowing that they got over on the American President….
Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday agreed to a deal with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that accepted a Turkish military presence in a broad part of northern Syria in exchange for the promise of a five-day cease-fire, completing an abrupt reversal of American policy in the Syrian conflict.
Emerging from close to five hours of talks after a hastily arranged trip to Ankara, the Turkish capital, Mr. Pence hailed the agreement as a diplomatic victory for President Trump, calling it a “solution we believe will save lives.”
The agreement “ends the violence — which is what President Trump sent us here to do,” Mr. Pence said at a news conference at the ambassador’s residence.
Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, immediately contradicted the description of the agreement, saying it was not a cease-fire at all, but merely a “pause for our operation.” He added that “as a result of our president’s skillful leadership, we got what we wanted.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) widely distributed a new “fact sheet” Monday outlining what her office characterized as a gross abuse of power by President Trump, including a “shakedown,” “pressure campaign” and “cover up.”
The move came as a Republican effort to censure House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) for his handling of the impeachment inquiry was expected to come to a head Monday, with Democrats seeking to derail a resolution backed by Trump….
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