Chris Wallace Dings Trump on Russia Sanctions: ‘Neither Bold Nor Swift’

‘It certainly is one of the toughest things he’s done since he became president towards Russia’

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WALLACE: "It certainly is one of the toughest things he’s done since he became president towards Russia, but picking up on what Sean Spicer just said, I’d push back and say it’s neither bold nor swift. The fact is that these were sanctions that were passed overwhelmingly, I think the vote was 98-2 in the Senate, last July and there was a lot of complaints from the Republicans as well as Democrats why hadn’t the President actually imposed these sanctions that have been authorized by Congress? He invoked some of them yesterday, but there are major sanctions that were still in his arsenal that were still approved by Congress to go after the defense industry and other industries in Russia that the President did not impose yesterday. So this was a middle step, stronger than what he’s done, but not nearly as far as he could have gone."

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