Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said U.S. sanctions, particularly against Russia,… The New Republic reports this.
“The problem with what we have with sanctions is that I myself have used them, but I put them on and take them off as quickly as possible because at the end of the day they are (sanctions against foreign countries. – Ed.) is killing its dollar and killing everything the dollar stands for, and we need to continue to preserve it as a world currency. I think that’s important. I think it would be like losing a war if we lost the dollar as a world currency. I think that would be the equivalent of losing the war, which would make us a third world country, and we can’t let that happen.
That’s why I use very powerful sanctions against countries that deserve them. And then I remove them because look, you’re losing Iran, you’re losing Russia. China is trying to make its currency dominant, as you know. All these things happen. We’re losing so many countries because of so many conflicts with all these countries, that we’re going to lose this (the dollar’s position as the world’s leading currency) as well. Ed.). And we cannot allow that. That is why I want to use sanctions as little as possible.” – Trump said, as quoted by Country magazine.
It should be noted that the headquarters Kamala Harris Trump presented this statement as a direct promise to lift sanctions against Russia, and this is how the pro-Democratic media is twisting it.
