{"id":31435,"date":"2018-02-14T12:23:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=31435"},"modified":"2018-02-14T13:03:01","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T21:03:01","slug":"sections-policy-quo-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/02\/14\/sections-policy-quo-for-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanctions Policy Quo for Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

In order to demonstrate that there was a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump, including the Republican Reich, in the theft of the 2016 Presidential election, we must demonstrate the existence of quid pro quo<\/em>.  That means "This for that".  Quid<\/em>, in this case, is all the things Russia did to harm Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump.  Quo<\/em> is for Trump and the Republican Reich to ignore the sanctions Obama imposed and Congress passed against Russia.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Three senior Democratic senators on Monday introduced a resolution pushing President Donald Trump to use the new authority over Russia sanctions that Congress overwhelmingly gave him last year.<\/p>\n

The symbolic measure from Sens. Ben Cardin of Maryland, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Robert Menendez of New Jersey marks the latest Democratic effort to pressure the Trump administration on its delay in implementing a bipartisan Russia sanctions bill \u2014 designed in part as a response to Moscow\u2019s meddling in the 2016 election \u2014 that the president signed only reluctantly.<\/p>\n

The administration\u2019s decision<\/a> last month to hold off on new penalties targeting the defense and intelligence sectors of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s government infuriated Democrats, who pointed out that the bipartisan bill Congress approved with only five opposing votes last year had designed the sanctions as mandatory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe lack of seriousness shown by the administration in the face of a clear national security threat and even clearer congressional intent is alarming and cannot continue,\u201d Cardin said in a statement on the resolution… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Rachel Maddow<\/a> explains how what Russia wants in return for infesting the White House with Trump is sanctions relief, and how the Trump Reich is giving Russia what Putin wants.<\/font><\/p>\n