(WASHINGTON) — A day ahead of President Donald Trump’s weekend call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the fight within the Republican Party over the direction of U.S. policy toward Moscow intensified.
Trump, who has said he wants a better relationship with Russia, was noncommittal on Friday about whether he was considering lifting U.S. sanctions against the former Soviet state, telling reporters at a news conference, “We’ll see what happens. As far as the sanctions, very early to be talking about that.”
But two top Senate Republicans — John McCain, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Rob Portman, a member of …read more
Source: Time
