Trump delayed sanctions against Russia for as long as possible before imposing modest-billed-as-sweeping sanctions.  A post lessater post less than a year after this one, I Less than a year later he lifted the sanctions.  So fearful is Trump of Putin that it has been two months since it was first reported that Russia paid Taliban a bounty for each American and coalition forces killed and Trump has yet to ask Putin about this.
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Absent from the by-name list of Russian perpetrators for obvious reasons is the kingpin who orchestrated it all: Putin. And what does it say about our resolve to punish Russia for interfering in our Presidential election when the Administration waits 8 months after they were mandated by law to impose ”sweeping” new sanctions on the one hand and the President congratulates Putin on his own sham election win and then invites him to the WH for a “how-am-I-doing-so-far-sir” meeting on the other hand. Meanwhile the State Department has spent $0 of the $120M allotted to prevent Putin from interfering in November’s election. What a joke. If this is all we will do to protect our elections from a foreign aggressor , we don’t deserve them.