WASHINGTON — (AP) Top congressional Republicans are demanding the Trump administration take swift and severe action against the Turkish government in response to violence involving members of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s security detail, with one saying the U.S. “should throw their ambassador the hell out of the United States of America.”
Sen. John McCain of Arizona, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, expressed outrage Thursday at video that appears to show Erdogan’s bodyguards violently breaking up a protest earlier this week outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington.
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“We should throw their ambassador the hell out of the United States of America,” said McCain on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
McCain said “this kind of thing cannot go un-responded to diplomatically.” He suggested that lawsuits should be filed if the responsible bodyguards can be identified.
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