It appears that US UN Amb Nikki Haley said something her boss isn’t happy with….
Namely being tougher on the Russians….
Trump has NOT approved tougher action against the Russians …
As usual White House staff has had to clean ups after their boss, playing off the incident as Haley’s getting ahead of the ball…
President Trump “put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as ‘international economic raiding,’” the Washington Post reports.
“The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement.”…
Another incident of Trump being nervous about spanking the Russians….
Despite President Donald Trump’s increasingly aggressive positioning on Russia in recent months, he has been reluctant or even angry about confronting that country, the Washington Post reported Sunday night.
The Post painted a picture of Trump in a stand-off with top foreign policy advisers on moves seen to be anti-Russian: expelling a large number of Russian diplomats following the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal, for example, or allowing the sale of weapons to Ukraine…..