I grew up in a truck-driving family. I know what it costs to keep a rig on the road, and I know diesel prices don’t stay at the pump. They ride into every grocery aisle, every delivery, every farm in this country. When fuel gets expensive, working people feel it first and longest.
That’s exactly why I’m not buying what got sold on October 9.
Trump announced Putin would release 300,000 tons of diesel onto U.S. and global markets this month, with more to come. Washington quietly eased sanctions on Russian diesel to make it happen. Meanwhile, U.S. officials have been leaning on Ukraine to stop hitting Russian refineries.
Cheaper fuel is the pitch. Nobody’s told you the price.
Hell, even Mike Pence, not exactly a card-carrying member of the resistance, urged Trump to rescind the deal. So did some U.S. senators, four of them Republicans.
And who rushed to answer him? Mike Flynn. Yes, Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, the one Trump pardoned after he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his Russian contacts. That Mike Flynn.
You can’t make this stuff up.
