Congress wrote that clause because they do not trust him on Russia. Then they handed him a waiver provision anyway, like leaving your car keys with the guy who stole your last car. He used it the first chance he got. The order says he’s waiving “the application of such sanctions, restrictions,

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and the five countries helping Moscow dodge oil sanctions. It made a whole stack of financial sanctions mandatory, not optional, within 30 days. It also stripped the president of the power to lift Russia sanctions on his own.

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What he actually waived The Graham Act required tariffs of up to 500% on Russian goods entering the United States. It required tariffs of up to 100% on the five biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas

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waiving almost the entire thing. The penalties were supposed to hit on Sunday. He killed them with 48 hours to spare, then flew off to his golf course like a man who’d just finished a chore his landlord assigned him. The landlord lives in the Kremlin.

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you were watching Slow Horses (everyone should watch Slow Horses), a mere twenty-eight days later, on a Friday evening, with the press corps packing up and Marine One warming on the South Lawn, he signed an executive order

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