Democrats Are Actually Praising Team Trump for Taking on Russia
Democrats are actually praising Team Trump for taking on Russia the president is still Putin philic
But his administration is taking an increasingly hardline tie with Moscow top Kratts are noticing the shifts
When Democrats talk about President Donald Trump and Russia, they usually unload on the White House with both barrels
But that changed last week when lawmakers in Macomb have been the most critical of Trump and his Kremlin friendly action software diffusive praised for
his administration after the shoot new Russia related sanctions in close
consultation with Congress
Senator Cory Booker D
New Jersey a possible
2020 presidential contender told The Daily Beast that the new designations were a good sign and a good step in the right direction
The overall effort caught many lawmakers by surprise
after months of accusing the administration of stonewalling them over similar sanctions that the White House opposed from the start
Thoughts because despite its stated goal to rebuild us-russia relations the administration last week sanctioned five Russian and Chechen
individuals under the Magnitsky Act a
2012 law that punishes alleged human rights abusers by freezing their assets and banning them from seeking visas
the sanctions targeted Ramzan Kadyrov the head of the Chechen Republic and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin
Over allegations of corruption and extrajudicial killings the move to rebuke from the kernel in which called the u.s.
Actions illegal and unfriendly and said it further degrades the strength us-russia relationship
Putin has condemned the Magnitsky Act and the resulting sanctions since it was passed and he retaliated for the effort by binding
Americans from adopting Russian children the issue gained an international spotlight recently when it was revealed that Donald Trump jr.
The president's son met last year at Trump Tower with Russians alleged to have Kremlin ties
The younger Trump initially said the meeting centered around the Russian adoption issue
But it was later revealed that he took the meeting after he was promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton throughout Trump's first year in office
Makers have noticed the determination on the part of some administration officials to get tougher on Russia in light of the
destabilizing actions in Eastern Europe and its efforts to meddle in the
2016 US election
But Trump himself they have argued is preventing a whole life government approach to counter Russian aggression
From his tip toeing around the issue of Russia's election meddling to his slow walking of a sweeping new Russia sanctions law he was forced
To sign in August his posturing has often conflicted with that of his top officials who have confronted Russia more directly in
Many ways the Trump administration is on autopilot on Russia policy despite the commander in chief in?
Addition to the Magnitsky sanctions the administration has taken steps in recent days aimed at countering Russian aggression
Last week top officials approved the lethal defensive weapons sale to Ukraine where the military is fighting Russian backed separatists
the White House also unveiled its national security strategy
Russia as a revisionist power and suggests the country is an adversary that aims to shape a world antithetical to US values and interests
These developments run counter to the views expressed by Trump himself throughout his nascent political career
Trump has praised Putin and suggested that he took the Russian leader at his word when he told Trump that Russia had not meddled in
The 2016 US election oddly to walk it back later affirming that he trusts the US intelligence community's January assessment on the matter
Lawmakers have noticed the determination on the part of some administration officials to get tougher on Russia
But Trump himself is preventing an approach to counter Russian aggression
Yuri toake
Russia's
Prosecutor general has worked for years to undermine the Magnitsky Act and is believed to have spearheaded some of Russia's meddling efforts in the American
Election as a way to fight back against the 2012 law, but US sanctions have now hit Janko personally on Friday the u.s.
Took further actions under the Global Magnitsky Act which former President Barack Obama signed into law last December as an extension of the original
Magnitsky Act to include human rights abusers world with day not just in Russia, but the Trump administration
Acting under the Global Magnitsky law for the first time since it was signed
levied sanctions at least against one Russian champers son artem
The State Department alleges that he has leveraged his father's position and ability to award his
Subordinates to unfairly win state-owned assets and contracts and put pressure on business
competitors
Last week swift and decisive actions left Trump's critics on Capitol Hill stunned
The same administration that was slow walking new Russia sanctions enacted in August did an about-face by working closely with Congress on the Magnitsky sanctions
The praise heaped upon Trump, and his administration has come from unlikely sources Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations, Committee
I want to give the administration credit
The process on both Russia specific and global magnet sky throughout the process were engaged with senator ben cardin
DMD the ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee told The Daily Beast I knew how the reviews were being conducted
We had very close relationships
It was treated with the highest degree of priority among the administration
And they acted correctly that was not the case for the August sanctions known as the countering America's adversaries
through sanctions Act qotsa Cardin and Senator John McCain are Arizona the chairman of the Armed Services
Committee were left in the dark for weeks when they tried to inquire about why the State Department blue pest and October 1st deadline to
Issue guidance on the sanctions
Senator Lindsey Graham our South Carolina feared it was another example of the administration showing its blind spot when it comes to Russia
but as Congress prepared to leave town for the holidays Trump's critics had nothing but kind words for the
administration on its latest Russia related actions
I think it's important to recognize positive progress whenever it happens Senator Chris Coons de Delaware told The Daily Beast
even though I disagree with the administration
Broadly on what a view is their failure to make human rights to higher priority and to take more decisive
action on the sanctions powers at
Conkers in a very strong bipartisan basis gave them I do think it's an important step forward that the Trump administration has designated
Under the Magnitsky Act. I hope that will be followed by stronger steps
The qotsa sanctions which trump reluctantly signed into law after his administration tried to weaken the sanctions in the face of overwhelming
congressional opposition in both chambers are enacted in retaliation for Russia's incursions into Eastern Europe and its meddling in the
2016 election something that Trump often dismisses as an excuse for Hillary Clinton's election loss
I'm trying to be as positive as I can about what steps there are by the?
administration that I think do push back on Russia's illegal and unconscionable invasion of an occupation in Crimea and
Continued meddling in the affairs of Ukraine in the East and the designation that have happened under the Magnitsky Act Koons added
But Coons and his colleagues were unable to explain the differences in how the administration approached the Magnitsky sanctions and the Cata sanctions
While there was a slight delay on the Magnitsky action
the Foreign Relations Committee did not make a fuss over it because
Administration officials were in constant contact over what they said were technical delays due to legal issues
the committee's requests for information about the cops a delay were mostly unexplained according to Shaun Bartlett a spokesman for Cardin while the
Administration was more forthcoming about the Magnitsky delays keeping us apprised of progress, or issues that came up
Senator bob Corker RTN was willing to look past the belated cots what measures do to the lost complexity
Corker told The Daily Beast last week that unlike cots under which the State Department and Treasury Department must take into
consideration the US companies that might be caught up in the
Sanctions the Magnitsky format is label
You've got to do is name the individuals, and it's done the State Department has chalked up its delay on the cots of sanctions
too much of what corker explained
But the Department has signaled that it also wants to avoid the side effects that result when lawmakers such as Cardin and McCain who co-authored
the Global Magnitsky Act bill public with concerns that they're being stonewalled by top administration officials
We are committed to engaging with Congress on their priorities
We welcome and appreciate the information provided by Congress and will continue to consider credible
specific information provided by these key partners a State Department spokesperson told The Daily Beast
We encouraged recommendations to be submitted privately to avoid letting tended negative consequences
That was likely a reference to both McCain's and carden's public threats against the administration after the October 1st delay
McCain from his powerful perch atop the Armed Services Committee told The Daily Beast he would continue to block Trump's nominees the key positions
While Cardin suggested holding up defense appropriations bills until the executive branch complies with the law
the House Foreign Affairs Committee also joined the fray with representative eliot engel d New York the panel's top Democrat
Writing to trump over the baffling and unacceptable delay, which sends a terrible message about American leadership on the global stage
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