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Grifter in chief

I read the other day that Donald Trump is removing Rusal, the giant Russian aluminum company owned by spymaster Eric Deripaska, from our international sanctions list, freeing up millions of dollars for Vladimir Putin’s buddy.

He has also decided to unilaterally pull our troops out of Syria, making it safer for Russian troops and airmen to bomb and gas more Syrian civilians in President Assad’s campaign to crush any movement toward Western Freedoms.

And he keeps insisting the jury is still out on who killed Jamal Khashoggi.

How much of this immoral and kleptocratic behavior are the new Republicans willing to swallow? At some point, enough senators need to grow a spine and put an end to this grifter’s heist. What does Putin have over our president? Come next month, I hope the Democrats in the House of Representatives will finally get to ask the hard questions and out the Republican majority for the moral cowards they have become.

Jim Wavada

Spokane

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