Biden’s son Hunter and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also targeted
Russia has imposed “retaliatory sanctions” against President Biden, a number of his top administration officials, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Biden’s son Hunter Biden amid its ongoing war with Ukraine.
According to Russian state-owned news agency Tass, the Russian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday imposed “personal sanctions against representatives of the U.S. leadership and persons associated with them.”
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The sanctions, according to the report, were imposed “in response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for top officials of the Russian Federation.”
The report said that as of March 15, Biden and the other individuals listed would be included on a Russian “stop list” on the “basis of reciprocity departments and well-known American figures.”
The individuals included on the list are President Biden, Hunter Biden, Clinton, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, CIA Director William Burns, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, deputy assistant national security adviser Duleep Singh, Director of the Agency for International Development Samantha Power, Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo and president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank Reta Joe Lewis.
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When asked about the sanctions during the White House briefing Tuesday, Psaki quipped: “I would first note that president Biden is a junior, so they may have sanctioned his dad. May he rest in peace.”
“The second piece, I would say, is that won’t surprise any of you, that none of us are planning tourist trips to Russia,” Psaki said. “None of us have bank accounts that we won’t be able to access.”
She added: “So we will forge ahead.”
Clinton also reacted to the sanctions on Twitter.
“I want to thank the Russian Academy for this Lifetime Achievement Award,” Clinton tweeted Tuesday afternoon.
Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/russia-sanctions-biden-officials
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