'Always an equivocation': Fox News' Chris Wallace nails Trump for being unwilling to directly call out Russia
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Thursday found himself unimpressed with President Donald Trump's response to Russia's use of a nerve agent on the soil of top ally the United Kingdom.
During an interview with Fox's Harris Faulkner, Wallace said that Trump didn't deserve total credit for enacting sanctions against Russia this week because those sanctions had actually been passed months ago by Congress without any kind of action from the executive branch.
"Look, the fact that, as you pointed out, that these sanctions for meddling in the election were passed by Congress overwhelmingly in July," Wallace said. "What is that, about nine months ago? And the president only enacted them today. You know, that raises the question what took him so long to do it."
Wallace also noted that Trump has been reluctant to call out Russia using the same blunt, angry rhetoric that he hasn't hesitated to use against governments such as China, Mexico and North Korea, all of whom have drawn his ire over the course of his presidency.
"Even in his remarks that you just played with him in the Oval Office, he said 'Well, it looks like [it was Russia]," he said. "Much tougher rhetoric coming from the U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, from the president's own spokeswoman, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. When the president talks himself, there is always a kind of equivocation. It looks like, he's not definite. He doesn't condemn. And that's notable."
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