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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:30 PM Apr 2018

I really want to say this is unbelievable, but the fact is, it is all too believable.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-puts-the-brake-on-new-russian-sanctions-reversing-haleys-announcement/2018/04/16/ac3ad4f8-417f-11e8-8569-26fda6b404c7_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.35596fb61097


Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley’s announcement


President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But as officials in Moscow condemned the planned sanctions as overly punitive, Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.
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This was tragically predictable.

We have a Kremlin puppet in the Oval Office. We need to deal with that fact. Now.
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I really want to say this is unbelievable, but the fact is, it is all too believable. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Apr 2018 OP
I will never forget him and the KGB officers in our oval office flipping their noses at Eliot Rosewater Apr 2018 #1
That image of the Russian foreign minister and ambassador literally Enoki33 Apr 2018 #15
"My bro Vlad says we can't do that." lpbk2713 Apr 2018 #2
My name is Wonald Wump and for show and tell I'm going to show how to be fucking Kirk Lover Apr 2018 #3
Putin's Puppet, at it again...nt Wounded Bear Apr 2018 #4
Jeeez. He doesn't even try to hide it. Hoyt Apr 2018 #5
Trump The Vladiator democrank Apr 2018 #6
Kick and Rec! orangecrush Apr 2018 #7
Drumpt is a Putin boot-licker. kairos12 Apr 2018 #8
Yikes!!! C Moon Apr 2018 #9
TREASON poboy2 Apr 2018 #10
Damn right! RainCaster Apr 2018 #13
Trump is a Russian asset! BlueJac Apr 2018 #11
I'll never get used to the media normalizing a president Blue_Tires Apr 2018 #12
No puppet, no puppet Bob Loblaw Apr 2018 #14

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. I will never forget him and the KGB officers in our oval office flipping their noses at
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:32 PM
Apr 2018

our journalists, Rump and the ambassador and the other guy.

Putin owns him, Putin is a bad guy. Supporters of Rump better understand Putin wants their money, their land, etc.

Enoki33

(1,587 posts)
15. That image of the Russian foreign minister and ambassador literally
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 05:39 PM
Apr 2018

taunting our journalists, as if they owned the Whitehouse, is, as the Brits might say, what really got my dander up. I’m still angered by it.

 

Kirk Lover

(3,608 posts)
3. My name is Wonald Wump and for show and tell I'm going to show how to be fucking
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 02:35 PM
Apr 2018

OBVIOUS. Add another log to the fire will you?

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
12. I'll never get used to the media normalizing a president
Mon Apr 16, 2018, 05:01 PM
Apr 2018

who pulls 180s like this on previous stances on a damn near daily basis...

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