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by Tom Rogan | Aug 2, 2017

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev: Trump is an 'incompetent player' who will be 'liquidated' by the US establishment

On Wednesday, President Trump signed a new sanctions bill targeting Russia. Russia has reacted with unrestrained fury. Indeed, fury is an understatement.

In a Facebook post specifically referencing Trump, the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev (No. 2 only to Putin), warned that Congress sees Trump as "an incompetent player" who must be "liquidated".

Yes, you read that right.

While Medvedev is suggesting that Congress will liquidate Trump for opposing their efforts to sanction Russia, this also reeks of a Russian warning to Trump specifically. The rest of Medvedev's post was equally aggressive. He suggested that Trump has shown "complete impotence, in the most humiliating manner, transferring executive powers to Congress" and that this is the "beginning of full-fledged trade war" and "the end of our hopes of improving relations with the new administration."

Let's be clear, this a very cold, very traditional Russian threat. And if it comes from Medvedev, it comes from Putin.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/russian-prime-minister-dmitry-medvedev-trump-is-an-incompetent-player-who-will-be-liquidated-by-the-us-establishment/article/2630446

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Medvedev continued his criticism on Twitter, saying in a series of tweets that, "The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way."

He added, "The US establishment fully outwitted Trump.The President is not happy about the sanctions, yet he could not but sign the bill" and, "We will steadily continue our work on developing the economy, relying mostly on ourselves. We have learned to do this."

    The Trump administration has shown its total weakness by handing over executive power to Congress in the most humiliating way— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) August 2, 2017

    The US establishment fully outwitted Trump. The President is not happy about the sanctions, yet he could not but sign the bill— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) August 2, 2017

    We will steadily continue our work on developing the economy, relying mostly on ourselves. We have learned to do this— Dmitry Medvedev (@MedvedevRussiaE) August 2, 2017

As John Schindler warned earlier this week, it seems increasingly likely that the Russians have abandoned Trump. Their first priority was sanctions relief and now they've got the opposite.

As I noted on Monday, . What follows next is anyone's guess.

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After Trump Signs Russia Sanctions Bill, Prime Minister Says It’s a “Trade War”

The use of the term “war” is an escalation in U.S.-Russia rhetoric, and a far cry from predictions of cooperation between Trump and Russia.

 Those comments were made by Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday, according to Reuters, after Trump signed a Russia sanctions bill into law.

    New sanctions on Russia which U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law are tantamount to a “full-scale trade war”, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday.

    Medvedev also said in a Facebook post that the sanctions showed the Trump administration was utterly powerless.

    “The hope that our relations with the new American administration would improve is finished,” he wrote.


Now, Trump did show some reluctance on the new sanctions, both before he signed the bill and in a statement after he signed it.

    .@POTUS signing statement on sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/72m6nmLIIm

    — Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) August 2, 2017

Trump maintains he can strike a better deal with Russia than Congress, and griped about the “very dangerous low” in U.S.-Russia relations on Thursday morning.

    Our relationship with Russia is at an all-time & very dangerous low. You can thank Congress, the same people that can't even give us HCare!

    — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 3, 2017

http://ntknetwork.com/after-trump-signs-russia-sanctions-bill-prime-minister-says-its-a-trade-war/