The White House cited Trump’s personal friendship with Kim Jong Un.
President Donald Trump made the surprise announcement Friday that he was cancelling a new round of sanctions intended to target North Korea announced only 24 hours earlier by his own administration.
“It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea,” Trump tweeted after arriving at his Mar a Lago club in Florida. “I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!”
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White House press secretary Sarah Sanders confirmed the president’s announcement in a statement, citing his personal friendship with the North Korean dictator.
“President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn’t think these sanctions will be necessary,” Sanders said.
The Treasury Department just Thursday had announced the round of sanctions targeting two Chinese shipping companies that it said have helped North Korea evade sanctions.
The tweet marked a stunning and major policy reversal of the first round of sanctions targeting the regime since Trump’s failed Hanoi summit with Kim last month.
In a tweet following the original sanctions announcement, President Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton highlighted the move as an “important” step and warned other countries against similar actions to aid North Korea.
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— ABC News (@ABC) March 22, 2019
Like I've said: there's stuff the government is doing, and there's stuff POTUS is doing. Not usually the same thing. https://t.co/DJLyP5o86o
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 22, 2019
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 22, 2019
Yep. Definitely mentally unbalanced.
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