Trump May Lift Sanctions on Russia to Give Collaboration a Chance

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By Eric Levitz

Every American intelligence agency believes that Russia tried to subvert our country’s democratic process in 2016. Presumably, so do Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner, seeing as they (at least) tried to participate in that subversion. And the Trump White House officially accepts the verdict rendered by the intelligence community and Donald Jr.’s old emails.

For some strange reason, however, the president appears physically incapable of publicly condemning Russia’s efforts.

Virtually every member of Congress believes that the Kremlin’s attempt to compromise our election merits retaliatory sanctions. But the Trump White House apparently thinks that the best way to prevent Russia from meddling in our elections again is to make sure that Moscow suffers no lasting punishment for its previous interference. Last December, the Obama administration seized two Russian diplomatic compounds in retaliation for those efforts. Trump has, reportedly, been trying to find a way to give those back since his very first days in office.

On Thursday, Jake Tapper asked the White House’s senior cable news surrogate Sebastian Gorka to explain the administration’s reasoning.

“We want to give collaboration and cooperation a chance,” Gorka explained. “The fact is we may not share the same philosophy, we may not share the same type of statesman view of the world but the fact is there are some issues of common concern.”

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[liberal N proud]

1. You mean collusion

[Solly Mack]

2. I'm sure they do want to collaborate and cooperate.

But not at anything good for Americans.

[Gothmog]

3. Trump needs to repay Putin for Putin's efforts

[FM123]

4. I can just see Trumpy crooning "All we are saying, is give collaboration/collusion a chance"

[Turbineguy]

5. Putin gave him his marching orders

during the G20 meeting.