Noting “[...] President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is out-of-control. He is imprisoning opponents, seizing newspapers left and right, and building palaces at the rate of a mad sultan or aspiring caliph”, Rubin has implied that the US would only “offer lip service against a coup, but they would work with the new regime”.
Rubin, Cumhurbaşkanı Tayyip Erdoğan’ın da kontrolden çıktığını söylediği yazısında “ABD darbeyi lafta eleştirir ama yeni rejimle birlikte çalışır” demişti.