Well, this will be a stab in the heart of the bogus narrative that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russian government to defeat Hillary Clinton in the presidential election.
The Trump Administration has reportedly ordered 60 Russian government officials to be expelled from the country’s consulate in Seattle. The move came after pressure from our partners in the United Kingdom, who suffered a Russian assassination plot on their own soil.
From Politico:
The U.S. will expel 60 Russian intelligence officers and order the Russian government to close its consulate in Seattle, the Trump administration announced Monday morning. The moves are retaliation in part for the Russian government’s alleged attempt to murder a former spy living in the United Kingdom.
On a conference call with reporters, a senior administration official said all 60 of the expelled officials are in the U.S. posing as diplomats, 48 at the Russian embassy and 12 at the Russian mission to the United Nations. They and their families will have seven days to leave the U.S.
JUST IN: Trump orders expulsion of 60 Russians from U.S. and closure of the Russian consulate in Seattle over UK nerve agent poisoning: senior administration officials pic.twitter.com/9ha0BiOG3r
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Surely, the Democrats can’t act like Trump is doing Putin’s bidding with this move, right?
Whatever informal agreement Trump may have been working on with the Russian government to ease tensions may have just been compromised. This move will no doubt be taken as an aggressive reaction by Moscow.
There’s no calling Trump a Putin stooge now. He just laid down the law with the former communist country. And it’s for the better. Russia’s alleged Cold War-style spy tricks need to end.
This is breaking news. Be sure to share it with others to show them that Trump is not Putin’s puppet!
