Trump is ready to impose new sanctions against Russia, but has put forward one condition - the media

To extend: US President Donald Trump is ready to sign the bill on sanctions against Russia, but solely if this document will make changes to Trump's opportunity to decide individually when these sanctions are canceled. The White House believes that US law should retain the powers of President Trump on "supervision of US foreign policy" and will provide him more control, writes Politico, citing his own sources in the Trump administration.

The current version of the bill allows the President to abolish 500 percent duties for countries that buy Russian oil and uranium for up to 180 days, and Senator Lindsey Graham said he had agreed to review the bill to allow Trump to abolish the second cancellation of duties. However, the White House wants the President's powers to abolish sanctions and guarantee that Congress will not be able to question Trump's decision if he decides to abolish sanctions.

"The current version is exposed to the President of the President by Congress through a joint resolution on disapproval . . . It is unacceptable to us. The administration will not be subjected to micro -management by the Congress on the President's foreign policy. The bill requires complete authority. " Journalists emphasized that Trump's willingness to cooperate with Congress on the sanctions bill testifies to his growing disappointment by Russian President Vladimir Putin.

"For the President, he has now invested his reputation of a person capable of agreeing on anything and anywhere, and Putin put him a fool," said one of the Republican figures close to the White House. At the same time, the leader of the Senate majority, John Tyun, was more cautious and stated that maybe the bill could be brought to the Senate this month, but did not give any guarantees.

"At the same time, the President's remarks that any new sanctions against Russia should be" at his discretion, "emphasize the main priority of the administration-to maintain the maximum flexibility and complete control over the US policy against the Kremlin," the material reads.

According to the two White House officials, in addition to the desire to limit Congress to control it in foreign policy issues, the insistence of Trump on flexibility is also connected with the desire to leave the door open for a potential breakthrough in negotiating with Putin. We will remind, on July 9 the media published audio recordings, on which Trump stated that he threatened Putin to divorce Moscow. Focus also wrote that Trump is considering giving Ukraine another Patriot.