Three weeks after signing the law that locked Russia's sanctions into place, the President let Putin sell diesel to America anyway. No forty-five days of notice. No written certification. No vote in Congress. Just a phone call, a Treasury permission slip with no price cap, and four point eight million tons of fuel flowing to the country bombing Ukrainian apartment buildings. Senator Schiff said we went from sanctioning Russian oil to buying it in three weeks. Senator Blumenthal called it a stain on our nation's character. Zelensky called it an obvious weakness. They are all right.
In this episode, Jim and Jill cross-examine the deal the way Mitch Jackson would in a courtroom: the timeline, the backstory of Russia's broken refineries, the three locks Congress built into law, the Supreme Court rule from nineteen fifty-two that says paperwork never outranks a statute, why this is not treason even though it is terrible policy, and the one phone call you need to make before October eighteenth. No spin, no inflated charges, just what the law actually says and the exact move that puts pressure where it belongs.
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