US President-elect Donald Trump’s senior aide Kellyanne Conway has denounced outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama’s decision to impose harsh economic sanctions against Russia.
On Thursday, Obama announced a series of economic sanctions against Russia, as well as expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats, over allegations that it interfered in the 2016 presidential election through cyberattacks.
“I don’t think at the height of the Cold War that this country expelled that many operatives,” Conway told CNN on Thursday night, describing the sanctions as “unprecedented.”
She suggested that President Obama took these measure against Russia in order to “box in” Trump over the country when he takes office on January 20.
“Even those who are sympathetic to President Obama on most issues are saying that part of the reason he did this today was to quote ‘box in’ President-elect Trump,” said Conway, the former Trump campaign manager who was last week appointed…