Has trump condemned russians for the nerve gas killings in the UK?

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Trump Denies Russian Guilt in Murder. Tillerson Admits It, Is Fired. Hmm.

Every Trump administration personnel shake-up is a noir story of terrible, incompetent people squabbling with other terrible, incompetent people. But one thing that stands out about the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is that Tillerson explicitly identified Russia as the culprit in the murder of Sergei Skripal in the United Kingdom, and Donald Trump did not.

Yesterday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders condemned the murder as “reckless,” but repeatedly declined to endorse the United Kingdom’s conclusion that Russia was behind it. This exchange with reporters is quite odd:

Q. Sarah, I was hoping you could comment on news out of Great Britain today. Theresa May saying that the British government believes that Russia was behind the attempted murder and poisoning of a former spy with a nerve agent that has a Russian manufacturer. Is that the assessment of the United States government, number one?

Does the United States government plan on designating Russia as — like it did North Korea, earlier this year, regarding the murder of Kim Jong-un’s half-brother — of Russia using chemical weapons?

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-russia-innocent-rex-no-guilty-trump-youre-fired.html

[ProfessorGAC]

1. I'm Sure It's Just Fake News

And those people just fine, and they are paid crisis actors, and it never happened and if it did it wasn't the russians and even if it was the russians it was a rogue element and deep state, something, something. . .

There i took care of it!

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2. but, but, but...UK expels 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning -

Here is a very lightly abridged version of Theresa May’s statement, with headlines inserted to make it easier to read.

On Russia’s response to what she said on Monday

Mr Speaker, it was right to offer Russia the opportunity to provide an explanation. But their response has demonstrated complete disdain for the gravity of these events.

They have provided no credible explanation that could suggest they lost control of their nerve agent.

No explanation as to how this agent came to be used in the United Kingdom; no explanation as to why Russia has an undeclared chemical weapons programme in contravention of international law.

Instead they have treated the use of a military grade nerve agent in Europe with sarcasm, contempt and defiance.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2018/mar/14/pmqs-may-corbyn-russia-spy-poisoning-uk-it-will-face-equal-reaction-if-may-punishes-it-for-salisbury-spy-attack-politics-live

[ProfessorGAC]

3. I Saw That

I was just riffing on what the WH response was likely to be but left out the beeps, clicks, sputtering, and hummanahs.

[spanone]

5. 😁👍🏼

[Flaleftist]

4. There was a clip when Putin was asked about it.

I think Rachel showed it last night. He didn’t deny it, laughed and made some comment about agriculture in his country.