Despite comments from the administration in recent days suggesting they were satisfied with the changes made to the Russia sanctions bill, President Trump’s signing statement on the bill was an outright condemnation, insisting it improperly encroaches on his power, and hurts European allies.
And while he clearly had big problems with the bill, he signed it anyhow, saying he plans to work with Congress to “make the bill better,” even though it’s already the law of the land now. After struggles within Congress to get the bills through, there is little appetite to re-negotiate it.
In reality, Trump didn’t have a lot of choice on the matter, as the overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate meant they could’ve easily overridden a veto if he’d offered it, which would’ve been politically embarrassing, particularly on a Russia-themed bill.
The bill imposes new sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and limits the president’s ability to remove sanctions without Congressional permission. Russia and Iran have threatened retaliation over the bill, as has the European Union, which fears the bill is going to target German energy companies.
He can say whatever he wants, he caved. All of a sudden he’s concerned with unity and the will of the people? Right.
He either has no conviction about the matter or is an abject liar.
In reality, he could have not only vetoed this terrible legislation,
but used the bully puplit to tell the American people why he’s opposed
to it. This would probably be enough to thwart a bipartisan veto override.
He also could take this to the Supreme Court, the mere threat of which
would be enough to keep the veto in place.
By stating how much he dislikes this bill, and still signing it,
he’s proven to be a due facce. That’s Italian for two-face.
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Rather embarrassing for President Preschooler.
A lot move embarrassing for the whole United States for electing such a congress only 5 maybe votes on peaceful coexistence .
well with numbers like that voting in both houses, the trumpster didn’t see much point in a veto now did he?
a bad bill if ever there was one…..let’s just antagonize not only two nuclear armed powers, but also all our european allies that need and use cheap russian gas! like Medvedev said, this is economic war.
He shouldn’t have signed it and forced the morons in Congress into a veto. That would clarify just who is who and also show that despite electing Trump and his agenda, the American people are going to get whatever nonsense Corrupt Congress wants. At some point Trump needs to have a word with his party about what direction it’s going to go.
The great NWO vote in congress just shows how little the U.S. congress knows about what has been going on in the world . But we have to forgive them because they have been listening to fake news and propaganda nearly all their lives . Only 5 men voted maybe on peaceful relations with the only country in the world that could destroy us
Russia is also the one nation stopping our one-world dominance,
that is the bottleneck.
Russia and China. China prefers to stay in the background for now
Heaven on earth — Just by chewing carrots
If everyone ate healthy and stopped smoking, boozing and drugs,
we would be the healthiest people on earth, disaster medicine
would go bankrupt, we could afford the finest rapid transit system
and with such a healthy, clear and moral mind, surely, all of our
wars of aggression would be history.
Gutless!!!!