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What did Trump do to block the pipeline?

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Hey, Madison Cawthorn weighed in a few days ago:

"Remember that Zelenskyy is a thug," Cawthorn said in a video obtained by WRAL. "Remember that the Ukrainian government is incredibly corrupt and is incredibly evil and has been pushing woke ideologies."

The Ukrainian government is “incredibly evil.” Remember that. US Rep. Madison Cawthorn calls Ukrainian president 'thug.'

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Here you go. Trump trying to convince Germany not to allow the pipeline. Also trying to get Germany to carry out its financial responsibilities to NATO to make it,stronger.

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Trying to convince and blocking are two different things IMHO.

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I stated that he tried to block the pipeline. The US was not in a position to order Germany around. And then Biden approved of it anyway. He did what he could do.

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When Russia was making overtures of invading Biden commented that Putin would lose the pipeline. And when it happened Scholz pulled the trigger. Biden changed his mind. Anything wrong with that?

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No. He finally realized Trump was right all along. Good for him.

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Barr mentioned this bill in his recent interview. He said Trump didn’t want to sign it but it had overwhelming support in Congress.

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That wasn’t collateral damage. Collateral damage is when innocent people get hurt while you are engaging hostiles. That family was targeted.

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You saw the actual video of Trump lecturing the Europeans. I haven’t seen the Barr interview as you haven’t linked to it. Why would Trump discuss this with the AG?
And why would you have asked me what Trump did if you even knew about details like this. Doesn’t sound very forethright .

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You should have thought about that before libs went into a full-scale attack against cons in general and Trump specifically back in 2016.

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My gosh, it is now being revealed more every day how the Democrats conspired to tag Trump as basically a Manchurian candidate for Putin, and they are complaining about political divisiveness. Unbelievable.

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I have seen quotes of Trump saying he didn’t want the pipeline to go through but you said he tried to block it. I have a hard time finding anything he did to do that.
As far as Barr’s statement. I dont have the video handy but you can read his signing statement. Where he says the bill is seriously flawed but he is signing it because it is the will of the people.
https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/briefings-statements/statement-president-donald-j-trump-signing-countering-americas-adversaries-sanctions-act/

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The facilities in the Ukraine, as far as I understand, are Nunn-Lugar facilities - existing to neutralize Soviet-era weapons left over in the Ukraine.

They go back a lot longer than to the mid-2000s - Nunn-Lugar became law in 1991.

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This is confusing to me.

If the US wasn’t in a position to order Germany around, how does Biden’s “approval” matter?

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Yes…and he signed the bill. He said he had reservations in doing so because it did not allow the executive room to negotiated. Sounds like he had a good handle on the situation.
And quit playing games asking questions instead of stating your opinions. You’re not Socrates.

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Sanctions. Follow the posts.

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If libs had common sense, that wouldn’t be an issue. The fact is, the Constitution is not subject to regulation.

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By the time Biden took office, 95% of the pipeline was complete. What did Trump do to block the pipeline?
Signing the sanctions bill apparently didn’t do anything to block it.

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That was supposed to be a one-time deal. But libs in Congress fell down on their end of the deal.

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