Trump decided to abandon plans for more Russia sanctions

[Julian Englis]

Source: CNN

President Donald Trump personally made the decision to abandon plans to impose more sanctions on Russia for supporting Syria's chemical weapons attack on civilians, according to three senior administration officials and a source familiar with the discussions.

The first senior administration source said the Trump administration informed the Russian government there won't be an additional round of sanctions. The official said the call was made to the Russian Embassy on Sunday. They said the confusion caused by comments made by UN Ambassador Nikki Haley in a Sunday show interview when she said new sanctions were coming made the call necessary.

The second administration official said a high-level person at the State Department called the embassy to say Haley's comments about sanctions were not correct. The source said the State Department official did not tell the Russians they were off the hook or that they would not face any sanctions, but conveyed that the issue was still under consideration.

Trump's national security team seemed to have reached enough of a consensus on punishing Russia for its de facto support for the attack that left at least 75 dead that Haley told CBS' "Face the Nation" on Sunday that Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin would be unveiling sanctions on Russia the next day.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/18/politics/trump-russia-sanctions-haley/index.html

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Headline's should read, "Putin decided that Trump to abandon plans for more Russia sanctions."

[RKP5637]

1. Yep, tRump probably got a call from Putin to knock it off or else. n/t

[duforsure]

2. Once again the opposite

Saying he's strong against Russia and Putin is just another tall tale from trump as he refuses to put these latest sanctions on Russia, but claims he's the opposite of the truth, when he is he's really, really weak against them. He's fought tooth and nail to keep from doing anything, except offer up lame excuses for getting along with a murderous criminal putin, and claiming its good for this country, which it isn't. Putin is now having hackers attacking our infrastructures, our election process, and upsetting businesses with their hacking's causing disruptions costing them money, and trump still wants to appease Putin. Hillary was right about trump all along.