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RFE/RL: Trump – New Russia sanctions to come soon as they ‘deserve it’

Published April 19, 2018 at 10:31 am

(FILES) In this file photo taken on April 3, 2018, US President Donald Trump speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC.Trump on Sunday said there will be a "big price to pay" after what he called a "mindless CHEMICAL attack" in Syria, allegedly involving chlorine gas. Trump also called Syrian President Bashar al-Assad an "animal." "President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay," Trump said in a pair of tweets which began with a discussion of the attack in Syria's Eastern Ghouta, where rescue workers alleged that regime loyalists had used chlorine gas. / AFP PHOTO / Olivier Douliery

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U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his claim that nobody has been tougher on Russia than him and that he will impose new sanctions on Moscow “as soon as they very much deserve it.”

Trump was not more specific on possible sanctions while speaking on April 18 during a joint news conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.