“To make the Americans impose the toughest sanctions, to ruin everything, and then go home as a winner.”

“He will do everything to prevent any peace. Peace means holding elections, lifting martial law. His own people would tear him apart there.”

"We're not utopianists... We have one priority above all else...to stop the bloodshed," said Sebastian Gorka, Donald Trump's senior director for counterterrorism.

"Just James Comey casually calling for my dad to be murdered," he wrote in response to Comey's post of a picture showing the "86 47" sign.

"We need to have all the parties decide. One of the parties is missing," Donald Trump's senior director for counterterrorism said, when asked whether Trump should have traveled to Istanbul.

"I don't think anything productive is actually going to happen from this point forward… until they engage in a very frank and direct conversation," the US State Secretary told Fox News.

"Any other person with the position of influence that he has... What the propaganda media has built him up to be... I'm very concerned about the president's life," she added.