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despite law passed by US Congress over election hacking


Why would that be, Comrade?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-russia-sanctions-trump-no-new-congress-law-election-hacking-intervention-putin-kremlin-a8184866.html

Bender your soap box getting quite the workout. I'm outraged by everything you posted that has nothing to do or affects anyone that I give a chit about. Keep up the good fight! This is truly ManBearPig; Excelsior!

He's not smart and definitely not any kind of negotiator.

I honestly don't understand how this is happening....

My understanding was this was a bill, overwhelmingly passed by congress.... to impose these sanctions.

Now, the presidency is saying that the existence of the bill was sanction enough and the actual content of the bill doesn't need to be acted on?

I honestly don't understand what governmental rules allow that.

And how are his supporters not pissed about this? Republican congressmen/women wanted these sanctions as well. Or is this just another "haha it's fun to troll people!" thing?

This just adds to the speculation that Trump is hiding some ulterior motives in how he has behaved with Russia. The sanctions at issue here are the ones that the Obama Administration imposed on Russia for interfering during the 2016 presidential elections. The sanctions were approved by overwhelming bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress (more than 90% approval - unheard of nowadays) along with language that supposedly prevents the President from blocking them.

These sanctions are above and beyond those imposed by the US and the world (mostly European nations afraid of Russian aggression) on Russia after their invasion of Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. Those sanctions are still in effect and widely despised by the Russian oligarchs who have seen their empires limited. These same Russian oligarchs are behind Russia's known interference in European and US elections tampering. These efforts to influence elections is part of an elaborate scheme to bring about regime change in many countries so that the sanctions are lifted and may lead to governments that are open to Russian influence expansion.

In simplistic terms: Russia invaded and occupies Ukraine and Crimea. US and European allies retaliated by imposing harsh sanctions on Russian state-owned businesses. Russia starts a cyber-war by trying to influence elections in countries that support the sanctions, to elect governments that have more friendly attitudes towards Russia. Russia engages with newly elected officials to lift sanctions...

...when the children cry...

Not sure, but I'd wager that 'tap dancing' in Latin is H-something

:)

Some cons don't mind when someone sneaks into their house and rearrange the furniture...instead of forcefully kicking them out and kicking their azzes and securing their home, they are willing to negotiate with them...

Jesus D!ck Gautier? Christ?

Wait, isn't that DACA?

But seriously guys....

Ignore whether you love trump or think he's an orange f$$ktard....

How does he have the leeway to actually do this? I honestly don't understand.... shouldn't congress just push back and say "dude... this is a bill"?

Is there enough leeway in the bill that he can say the passing of the bill is sufficient sanctions? Did the bill get signed? I seriously don't get how this happens.... what is the procedure he is using?

^ to be clear they were Republican driven laws that the bammy admin purposely did not implement.

Um .... too late for that. He signed it. Did you happen to see the vote count? Not so much on the veto dummy.

Interesting... I didn't know that presidents had this much leeway to just be like... "sure I'll get right on that"....

Oh the part I forgot to mention is the reason it works this way pragmatically sometimes is length or court action and or who has the pull to make things move.

President Treason’s example here is odd in its blatant in your face high profile nature.

He can do what the last prez did, go out on video 7-10 times and say "I am not a king. I can't just wave a magic wand" then wave a magic pen and make it so. Oh, but he has to fold his arms, nod his head and blink twice.

it would make ruling so much easier.
who knew governing was so complicated?

Ohh, just wait, President Abdul Kareem Jabbar Mohammad Barry Soetoro Hussien Obama's dirty work is just having the flashlight pointed in it's direction. The carnage will be bigly.

Mark Twain from his autobiography recounts a practical joke a friend played on a revival preacher when Twain was an apprentice in a printing shop that Alexander Campbell, a famous evangelist then visiting Hannibal, hired to print a pamphlet of his sermon. While checking the galleys, Twain's fellow apprentice, Wales McCormick, found he had to make room for some dropped words, which he managed by shortening Jesus Christ on the same line to J. C. As soon as Campbell had read the proofs, he swept indignantly into the shop and commanded McCormick, "So long as you live, don't you ever diminish the Savior's name again. Put it all in." The puckish McCormick obeyed, and then some: he set Jesus H. Christ and printed up all the pamphlets.

That's what I have read.

Isn't that kind of backwards?

Good point..........I didn't connect the two........
that's why your the genius and I was going to spell "genius" with a J....spell check is my friend

Truth.