{"id":287864,"date":"2016-12-30T18:48:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-trump-aide-denounces-us-sanctions-against-russia\/"},"modified":"2016-12-30T18:48:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T17:48:55","slug":"top-trump-aide-denounces-us-sanctions-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/top-trump-aide-denounces-us-sanctions-against-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Trump aide denounces US sanctions against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s senior aide Kellyanne Conway has denounced outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama&#8217;s decision to impose harsh economic sanctions against Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think at the height of the Cold War that this country expelled that many operatives,&#8221; Conway told CNN on Thursday night, describing the sanctions as &#8220;unprecedented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She suggested that President Obama took these measure against Russia in order to &#8220;box in&#8221; Trump over the country when he takes office on January 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 &#8216;box in&#8217; President-elect Trump,&#8221; said Conway, the former Trump campaign manager who was last week appointed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/30\/504140\/Trump-team-rejects-US-sanctions-on-Russia\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s senior aide Kellyanne Conway has denounced outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama&#8217;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. &#8220;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}