Sec. Scott Bessent: ‘No One Has Been Tougher on Russian Sanctions Than President Trump’

RUSH EXCERPT:
BESSENT: "That’s not true. No sanctions were lifted on Friday. No sanctions were lifted There was a law that was supposed to put more sanctions in place and the president effectively waived that No sanctions were lifted. Will they be lifted? There is a 60-day period so we can examine what’s going on The only thing that has been lifted is the diesel embargo And, you know, I will point out the U.K., in May waived their embargo on Diesel and jet fuel made with Russian crude So, you know where’s the outrage for the rest of the world? You know President Zelenskyy does not criticize his European partners He seemed a bit disassembled in that interview The Europeans are financing the Russian war machine The US imports four billion dollars of Russian products one point eight billion and that is fertilizer The Europeans they import more than 10 times that"