Carol Lee: You’re Seeing Trump’s ‘Transactional Nature Playing Out’ in Foreign Policy

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LEE: "I think what you’re seeing in his foreign policy is his transactional nature is playing out in that, you know, what he said in congratulating Erdogan, which White House officials said he wanted to do, particularly just so he could try to get — put Turkey in a place where he might be able to get something that he wants from them on the Islamic State fight, and that it was worth taking criticism that the U.S. is hypocritical in its preaching democracy. And you’ve also — so he — and he — this is a president that likes to be praised, and so you see him offering praise to Erdogan. You saw him doing this with Egypt, in which they felt that that was — that resulted in him getting this aid worker released. He has done that with President Xi Jinping of China. And so it’s kind of how he — you see how he’s operating. He’s doing these sort of praising people who we would not necessarily praise, and trying to get some sort of transactions from them."