The Sun Sentinel Editorial Board consists of Editorial Page Editor Steve Bousquet, Deputy Editorial Page Editor Dan Sweeney, and Editor-in-Chief Julie Anderson. The Russians, unaware that it was all of their language that he knew, switched from calling their plays out loud to using hand signals.Ĭould that be why Bradley is now unwelcome to visit Russia or to conduct financial business there? He surely doesn’t mind. There came a moment in the game when he used the phrase. Preparing for the game, Bradley found a Russian professor to teach him to say “Watch it, big guy!” in Russian. Bill Bradley spoke of his experience playing against a visiting Russian team as a basketball star at Princeton University. When he was running unsuccessfully for the 2000 Democratic presidential nomination, former U.S.
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No one close to Trump was banned, other than Sanders and his former secretary of the interior, Ryan Zinke, now in Congress, who resigned (or was fired) from the Cabinet after a series of ethics scandals. I accept that I’m not their cup of Russian tea.”įormer President Barack Obama, comedian and political commentator Stephen Colbert and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Joe Scarborough also made the list, which is dominated by people in government, politics, academia and the media. “I can see where my commitment to free, fair and accurate elections, my tendency to speak truth to power and strong stance against war crimes would offend President Putin’s sensibilities. “While I was previously unaware of my anti-Russian activities, I accept the verdict of Russia, whose commitment to truth, justice and the rule of law speaks for itself,” Raffensperger said in a press release. Through aides, Moskowitz told the Sun Sentinel he has no idea why he’s on the list and would have nothing to say beyond feeling honored.īut from Atlanta, Raffensperger had plenty to say. Marco Rubio, have long anti-Russian records. No other Florida member was targeted even though others, notably Sen. He’s the freshman congressman from Parkland. Jared Moskowitz to be on the list, but he is. There’s no obvious reason for Democratic U.S. The Kremlin may have confused her with former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, who worked in the Biden White House until recently and is on the Kremlin’s new enemies list.Īlvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, did not make the list, even though he’s the only prosecutor who has actually indicted Trump. Surprisingly not sanctioned is Fani Willis, the Fulton County, Georgia district attorney who has broadly hinted at a Trump indictment in August. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was Trump’s White House press secretary and is now governor of Arkansas, is on the list. Winston Churchill’s description of Russia as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” applies to the list. That’s not their business, we would think, but it is rather like how Trump himself has tried to excuse the insurrection. He will recommend whether to indict Trump on federal charges in either case. He’s the special federal prosecutor for the Justice Department’s Mar-a-Lago documents investigation and the Jan. Jack Smith is on the list of barred Russian visitors. Raffensperger received the phone call in which Trump urged him to “find” enough votes to tip the state’s electors to him. Most prominent on the Kremlin’s new travel and financial sanctions list: Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia Secretary of State, who would be a star witness in any prosecution of Trump for trying to steal the 2020 election after he lost it. To paraphrase an old saying, the Russians must think that their friend’s enemies are their enemies too. The recent list of 500 Americans newly barred from visiting Russia appears to confirm how much they value Trump’s friendship.
If Vladimir Putin doesn’t really consider former President Donald Trump to be one of Russia’s strategic assets, the Kremlin is hardly bothering to deny it.
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