Cybersecurity
Trump Says Sanctions on Russia to Stay at First, WSJ Reports
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President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, NY on Jan. 13,.
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President-elect Donald Trump would keep sanctions imposed by the Obama administration against Russia in place “for a period of time,” he told the Wall Street Journal, adding that he’d consider lifting them once Vladimir Putin proves he can be an ally.
“If you get along and if Russia is really helping us, why would anybody have sanctions if somebody’s doing some really great things?” Trump was quoted as saying during an hour-long interview with the paper a week before he is inaugurated as U.S. president.