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Donald Trump’s administration called on the Republican Republican Senator Lindsey Graham to lift sanctional measures against Russia in a bill that has predominant support in the Senate.

Source: ”European Truth« With reference to The Wall Street Journal

Details: According to WSJ, in recent weeks, the White House has been secretly contacted with Graham’s office, urging him to soften the bill with sanctions against Russia.

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Among other things, as the anonymous assistants of the senator shared, Trump was offered to add to the project provisions that would allow the President of the United States to decide on their own or what to be sanctioned.

The White House also suggested to replace all the wording with the word « should » « can », thus canceling the mandatory nature of the sanctions provided, learned The Wall Street Journal.

In the environment, Graham was outraged that the elimination of the mandatory nature of sanctions would make the bill toothless, and emphasized that Trump has the opportunity to impose sanctions at his discretion.

We will remind, senators Richard Blumental (Democrat) and Lindsey Graham (Republican) together with 80 co -authors have filed additional economic sanctions against for abandoning a truce, including the introduction of 500 percent duties on goods imported from countries that buy Russian oil.

Supporting these sanctions There are also in the House of Representatives.

At the same time, the White House spokeswoman Caroline Levitt made it clear what Trump was It will make the final decision regarding the potential strengthening of sanctions against Russia.