...did anyone else catch that, and is it true?
I strongly suspect thsi sort of thing has been standard fair for a very long time, but because people are calling Trump treasonous because of Flynn's calls, I think it's important to know just how unusual this is.
It is also very unusual that a sitting president would impose sanctions so late in his presidency with just a few weeks to go before he leaves office so that the incoming president has to deal with the consequences.
Obama has been shown to have known about Russia's hacking of the DNC for about 8 months before he suddenly decides to take action in the very last weeks of his presidency when there is political pressure to do so. Thus, i think that it could be argued that Trump had even more reason to do this than Obama or any other president in my memory. Finally, proof of the exact discussions is also lacking from anything that I have seen.
Has anyone else seen this? I'm trying to vet the news.