Presidential Silence After an Attack on American Soil
When protesters were assaulted by Turkish agents on American soil, Trump stayed out of it.
Editor’s Note: This article is one of 50 in a series about Trump's first two years as president.
On May 16, 2017, about a dozen members of the security detail of Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, attacked a group of mostly American protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence in Washington, D.C. The bodyguards overran local police officers, punched and choked demonstrators, then kicked them repeatedly as they lay on the ground. Nine people
