The top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today grilling him on a series of allegations raised in former national security adviser John Bolton’s new book, including the allegation that President Donald Trump sought to end the Justice Department’s charges against Turkey’s state-run Halkbank.
“Mr. Bolton also recounts [President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s] efforts to influence US law enforcement actions against a Turkish firm accused of the largest violation of Iran sanctions in US history, which President Trump reportedly said he would take care of,” wrote Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.