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Posted On: 09/22/2018 11:31:21 AM
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Trump wanted nothing to do with imposing sanctions on his buddy Putin, he was dragged kicking and screaming into doing it
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The action, taken under pressure from the U.S. Congress , freezes the U.S. assets of oligarchs such as aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska, a close associate of Putin, and lawmaker Suleiman Kerimov, whose family controls Russia’s largest gold producer, Polyus.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia...SKCN1HD1O0
The sanctions largely respond to what U.S. intelligence agencies have said was Russian interference in the presidential election, although the Treasury Department painted them as a response to a series of adversarial actions by Moscow.
Which Trump again denied in Helsinki.
U.S. President Donald Trump has been under fire for not taking strong action against Russia after a series of diplomatic disputes reminiscent of the Cold War era. The sanctions could complicate his hopes for good relations with Putin.
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