Erdogan 'played' Trump and lied to him on Syria

Turkish President "played" Donald Trump and convinced him that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would be the inevitable winner of the Syrian civil war and to withdraw US forces from parts of northern Syria to allow Turkish forces to remove Syrian Kurdish armed elements. Erdogan described continued arms transfers to the SDF as a waste of money. McMaster says, on the contrary, Trump had never ordered him to stop the delivery of weapons (Read more at Middle East Eye).