Source: Eunomia
by Daniel Larison
“Trump told a big lie about his record on sanctions this week. He said, ‘I use sanctions very powerfully against countries who deserve it, then I take them off [bold mine-DL].’ When he was president, Trump never lifted sanctions anywhere, but just kept adding more every year that he was in office. He is pretending that he was reasonable in how he used this policy tool, but when he was in charge he was a sanctions addict. No one is a bigger fan of economic coercion than Trump, and no one should believe him when he pretends to be something else.” (09/06/24)