Marta Gichko09:53, 15.04.25
Instead, he stated that he had already imposed sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and supposedly stopped it.
US President Donald Trump will not impose sanctions on Russia after the bloody attack on Sumy, which killed 35 people, he said during a meeting with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele.
Asked whether Russia would be punished with sanctions for this attack, Trump said that he had already imposed sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline and seemingly stopped it.
“It was a big pipeline that goes through Europe. I stopped it. It’s a Russian pipeline, probably the largest in the world, going to Germany. And I stopped it,” Trump said.
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Another lie from the criminal in the WH. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz suspended its certification on 22 February 2022, following official recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic by the Russian State Duma and President Putin during the prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
No imaginary sanctions were ever placed on Nord Stream 2, it wasn’t even operational when Trump was POTUS. In December 2020, the Russian pipelaying ship Akademik Cherskiy continued pipe-laying. In January, Fortuna, another pipe-layer, joined forces with the Akademik Cherskiy to complete the pipeline.
Does Trump remember who was POTUS in December 2020?
You’re correct that trumpkov didn’t stop Nord Stream 2, but he did sign a bill drafted by Ted Cruz and Tom Cotton that imposed sanctions on any firm that helped Gazprom finish the pipeline. President Biden later waived sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO, Matthias Warnig, in an attempt to rebuild ties with Germany, after relations deteriorated under trumpkov. Then, after Russia began deploying troops to the Ukrainian border, President Biden and Chancellor Scholz worked together to stop it, and President Biden imposed sanctions on Nord Stream 2 AG and its corporate officers.