Republicans this morning

[u/Longjumping-Tell1774]

[u/Longjumping-Tell1774]

Trump overruled a bill passed by Congress to increase sanctions on Russia. The bill was named after Lindsey Graham. It was his dying wish to hit Russia harder. The bill also included further sanctions against Iran.

It makes absolutely fuck all sense to cancel it. And it definitely isn’t in the “national interest” as he has stated.

The word is that even Republicans are not happy their legislation has effectively been vetoed by Trump

[u/lolwlol → u/Longjumping-Tell1774]

Maybe they shouldn’t have written a mechanism in the law specifically to allow Trump to do this.

[u/drunken_therapist → u/lolwlol]

Wasn’t that in the constitution?

[u/ness_monster → u/drunken_therapist]

No the law was passed and Trump signed in a few weeks back. However, the law has a carve out for the president to be able to carve out exceptions.

[u/drunken_therapist → u/ness_monster]

Ahh. Got it. I assumed it was a law passed and he vetoed it, but assumed wrong. Thanks for the clarification.

[u/reigninspud → u/Longjumping-Tell1774]

He’s been a Russian asset for a long time. Your general moron can’t retain info or don’t care. That story about him at a Russian hotel with prostitutes came out in the run up to 2016, I believe. People read or see this shit and then poof it’s gone. Flooding the zone and the speed with which news comes at us are factors but they don’t excuse it.