Jay Sekulow, a lawyer for President Donald Trump, said Wednesday that the U.S. government will take “imminent action” in response to a Turkish court’s decision to keep an American pastor jailed on bogus terrorism charges.

“The president is fully engaged with this,” Sekulow, a lawyer on Trump’s Russia team, said on his radio show.

“Same is true for the vice president and secretary of state. They are all engaged right now on this situation.”

Sekulow’s non-profit, the American Center for Law & Justice, is also representing the jailed pastor, Andrew Brunson, against charges that he aided supporters of two groups the Turkish government considers to be terrorist organizations.

A Turkish court decided on Wednesday that Brunson will remain in jail until his next hearing on Oct. 12.

He said Trump called Erdogan within the past 36 hours to ask for Brunson’s release.

The lawyer said he was limited on what information he could disclose about the diplomatic efforts but that he is aware of “multiple signals being received by our government and the Turkish government regarding some imminent action.”

“Imminent could be 24 hours, it could be 48 hours. It can reach a stall. We do not know,” he said, adding that “there are major diplomatic moves going on right now.” – READ MORE

Anti-trump Comedian Kathy Griffin Took To Twitter Monday To Condemn President Donald Trump Preemptively For What She Described As An Inevitable Conclusion Of The Reelection Of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan In Turkey — That Trump “will Drop To His Knees And Blow This Dictator.”

“Erdogan is now a dictator, no longer a democratically elected president,” Griffin wrote, elaborating only slightly on her insight into the Trump-Erdoğan relationship: “FUCK TRUMP.”

Oh good god. Trump will drop to his knees and blow this dictator. Trump will swallow. Erdogan is now a dictator, no longer a democratically elected president. FUCK TRUMP https://t.co/IPET19Ozyq — Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) July 9, 2018

To illustrate her point about the relationship between Trump and Erdoğan, Griffin quoted a tweet featuring an article from Al Jazeera on Erdoğan’s inauguration Monday. The article does not mention Trump once, nor does it mention the many accusations against Erdoğan for being a “dictator,” as Griffin suggested. Instead, the article lists other dictators and unsavory international personages that Erdoğan invited to his inauguration, including Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro and Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. – READ MORE