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Fast Forward Trump Signs New Iran Sanctions Into Law Over His Own Objections
(JTA) — President Trump signed into law a new sanctions package that targets Iran, along with Russia and North Korea, despite complaints that it includes “a number of clearly unconstitutional provisions.” The measure passed easily in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, effectively nullifying the president’s ability to veto. The Iran component ramps up sanctions…
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Fast Forward Kushner: Trump Campaign Was Too Incompetent To Collude With Russia
Jared Kushner invoked the ineptitude defense on the Trump-Russia investigation, telling a group of congressional interns that his father-in-law’s presidential campaign was too disorganized to cooperate with the Kremlin. “They thought we colluded, but we couldn’t even collude with our local offices,” he said, according to notes of the talk obtained by Foreign Policy magazine….
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Fast Forward Trump Says He Will Sign New Iran/Russia Sanctions Into Law
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump said he would sign into law a new sanctions package that includes sanctions targeting Iran. Trump’s statement came late Friday evening, a day after the Senate had passed the sanctions bill targeting Russia, North Korea and Iran in a 98-2 vote. “President Donald J. Trump read early drafts of the…
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Fast Forward Senate Passes Russia/Iran/Korea Sanctions 98-2, Spurring Showdown With Trump
The Senate approved new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea by a vote of 98-2 on Thursday evening, rebuking President Trump’s overtures to Moscow and forcing him to make a difficult choice — sign the bill and anger Russian President Vladimir Putin, or veto it and rebuke not only his fellow Republicans but also…
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Fast Forward Billionaire Once Jailed By Putin Tapped To Represent Jewish Ex-Soviet Communities
(JTA) — Eight years after his release from wrongful imprisonment in Russia, the Israeli billionaire Mikhael Mirilashvili was elected to lead the World Jewish Congress Euro-Asian affiliate, representing communities from Ukraine to Singapore. Mirilashvili, who had spent eight years in a Russian prison until 2009 on trumped up charges connected to his father’s abduction, was voted…
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Fast Forward House Pressures Trump By Passing Russia Sanctions Bill That Also Targets Iran
The U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to slap new sanctions on Russia, and force President Trump to obtain lawmakers’ permission before easing any sanctions on Moscow, in a rare rebuke of the Republican in the White House. House members backed the measure, which also imposes sanctions on Iran and North Korea, by…
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Fast Forward Don’t Blame Jared — It’s All His Assistant’s Fault
Is President Trump’s son-in-law and top adviser trying to scapegoat an unnamed assistant? In his written testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee Friday, Kushner had a lengthy explanation about omitting his meeting with Russian officials from White House disclosure forms. Kushner’s defense line, in short, was: “It wasn’t me, it was my assistant.” Kushner claims…
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Fast Forward Evangelicals Say ‘Just Like God’ To Give Us Jared And Ivanka
Jared Kushner received an assist from some unexpected friends amid the scandal over his connections to Russia – a bevy of evangelical Christian leaders. “It’s just like God to use a young Jewish couple to help Christians in the United States, defend their rights, and secure their religious freedom for now, and for subsequent generations,”…
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