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Washington (CNN) A consensus emerged Tuesday at the White House and Mar-a-Lago about how to clean up the administration's suddenly muddled plans to crack down on Russia: Blame Nikki Haley.
Several administration officials said the US ambassador to the United Nations got ahead of President Donald Trump's decision-making when she hit the Sunday talk show circuit and said the US would level new sanctions the next day targeting Russian companies that facilitated the Syrian regime's chemical weapons program. The sanctions have yet to come.
"She got ahead of the curve," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told reporters on Tuesday near the President's Florida estate, a day after a report claiming Trump "put the brakes" on plans for new Russia sanctions. "She's done a great job, she's a very effective ambassador. There might have been some momentary confusion about that."
"With all due respect, I don't get confused," she said in a statement obtained by CNN's Jake Tapper.
Even as the White House placed the blame squarely on Haley's shoulders, questions remained about what prompted her to specifically say: Treasury "Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing (new Russia sanctions) on Monday, if he hasn't already." She even said the sanctions would hit "any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used."
The confusion was met with the typical sequence of eyerolls across Washington, where some surmised the public dissonance between Haley and the White House was just another symbol of the Trump presidency's inconsistency on policy, especially when it comes to Russia.
"How many other things do you want to mention have been rolled out that way?" Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, told reporters Tuesday. "I didn't think much about it. You know, two weeks ago, we're moving out of Syria the next day, and then the next day we weren't. It's just sort of standard confusion."
As always, it's never the con artist's fault and really, he's been tough on Russia. So tough he coordinated with them on the Syrian strike so not a single Russia soldier or piece of equipment was harmed.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/nikki-haley-russia-sanctions/index.html
Several administration officials said the US ambassador to the United Nations got ahead of President Donald Trump's decision-making when she hit the Sunday talk show circuit and said the US would level new sanctions the next day targeting Russian companies that facilitated the Syrian regime's chemical weapons program. The sanctions have yet to come.
"She got ahead of the curve," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow told reporters on Tuesday near the President's Florida estate, a day after a report claiming Trump "put the brakes" on plans for new Russia sanctions. "She's done a great job, she's a very effective ambassador. There might have been some momentary confusion about that."
"With all due respect, I don't get confused," she said in a statement obtained by CNN's Jake Tapper.
Even as the White House placed the blame squarely on Haley's shoulders, questions remained about what prompted her to specifically say: Treasury "Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing (new Russia sanctions) on Monday, if he hasn't already." She even said the sanctions would hit "any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used."
The confusion was met with the typical sequence of eyerolls across Washington, where some surmised the public dissonance between Haley and the White House was just another symbol of the Trump presidency's inconsistency on policy, especially when it comes to Russia.
"How many other things do you want to mention have been rolled out that way?" Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, told reporters Tuesday. "I didn't think much about it. You know, two weeks ago, we're moving out of Syria the next day, and then the next day we weren't. It's just sort of standard confusion."
As always, it's never the con artist's fault and really, he's been tough on Russia. So tough he coordinated with them on the Syrian strike so not a single Russia soldier or piece of equipment was harmed.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/17/politics/nikki-haley-russia-sanctions/index.html
