Trump Warned Not To Hand Putin Luxury Compounds Back on Advice of U.S. Senators
Source: Newsweek
BY DAMIEN SHARKOV ON 7/7/17 AT 8:10 AM
U.S. Senators have warned President Donald Trump not to restore Russian access to luxury diplomatic properties in his first meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, fearing it would send a message of weakness to the Kremlin.
Two Russian diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland are currently under sanctions introduced by Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, in response to Russia’s alleged interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election.
“The return of these two facilities to Russia while the Kremlin refuses to address its influence campaign against the United States would embolden President Vladimir Putin,” senators argued In a copy of the letter, tweeted by one of its signatories, Jeanne Shaheen.
Shaheen, a member of the Democratic Party and senators from Trump’s Republican Party, Johnny Isakson and Marco Rubio urged the president not to “invite a dangerous escalation in the Kremlin’s destabilizing actions against democracies worldwide.”
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Removing sanctions that will let ExxonMobil trigger those trillion dollar oil leases is the main event!
Let's see how Putin gets this rolling!
He's got a lot of the deal on the table. All he needs is his trump card!
