Spicer suggests Russia sanctions may be ‘political retribution’

Published January 1, 2017 2:30pm ET



President-elect Trump’s incoming press secretary suggested on Sunday that the Obama administration’s sanctions against Russia might have been motivated more by politics than by national security.

Sean Spicer said on ABC News that Trump’s camp has questions about why President Obama imposed historically tough sanctions against Russia’s hacking of Democratic Party operatives but had no public response when China stole the personal information of millions of federal workers in 2015.

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