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From the United Press International
Aug. 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced tariff increases on Turkish metals as tensions between Turkey and the United States escalated.
Trump said Friday on Twitter that he authorized a new 20 percent tariff on aluminum and 50 percent tariff on steel from Turkey. It came as a Turkish delegation returned from the United States, reporting no progress on negotiations involving a U.S. pastor imprisoned in Turkey.
Andrew Brunson has been in Turkish custody since 2016, when he was arrested on charges of terrorism and support of a group held responsible for an attempted coup of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. U.S. President Donald Trump introduced a round of sanctions on Aug. 1, preventing the Turkish justice an interior ministries from doing business with U.S. businesses. Trump also threatened additional "large sanctions" against Turkey, a NATO ally, for Brunson's detention.
COMMENT:-
Obviously when another country arrests an American who is in that country and charges them with committing offences against the laws of that country while proposing to try them on those charges in the courts of that country pursuant to the constitution of that country this creates a "National Security Concern" which allows the President to unilaterally impose penalties on that country in order to force that other country to admit that it has no jurisdiction over ANY American at any time and regardless of what the laws of the country are. After all, it isn't against the laws of the United States of America for an American who isn't in the United States of America to "conspire" to overthrow the government of a country PROVIDED that that country is NOT the United States of America.
Right?
Trump OKs stiffer tariffs on Turkey as lira plummets
Aug. 10 (UPI) -- President Donald Trump announced tariff increases on Turkish metals as tensions between Turkey and the United States escalated.
Trump said Friday on Twitter that he authorized a new 20 percent tariff on aluminum and 50 percent tariff on steel from Turkey. It came as a Turkish delegation returned from the United States, reporting no progress on negotiations involving a U.S. pastor imprisoned in Turkey.
Andrew Brunson has been in Turkish custody since 2016, when he was arrested on charges of terrorism and support of a group held responsible for an attempted coup of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. U.S. President Donald Trump introduced a round of sanctions on Aug. 1, preventing the Turkish justice an interior ministries from doing business with U.S. businesses. Trump also threatened additional "large sanctions" against Turkey, a NATO ally, for Brunson's detention.
COMMENT:-
Obviously when another country arrests an American who is in that country and charges them with committing offences against the laws of that country while proposing to try them on those charges in the courts of that country pursuant to the constitution of that country this creates a "National Security Concern" which allows the President to unilaterally impose penalties on that country in order to force that other country to admit that it has no jurisdiction over ANY American at any time and regardless of what the laws of the country are. After all, it isn't against the laws of the United States of America for an American who isn't in the United States of America to "conspire" to overthrow the government of a country PROVIDED that that country is NOT the United States of America.
Right?