Russia bans Biden but not Trump, on list of Americans travel-barred

President Joe Biden made Russia’s “blacklist” however former President Donald Trump did not.

Russia’s International Affairs Ministry on Saturday launched an updated list of nearly 1,000 Americans completely barred from getting into the nation, a largely symbolic slap in response to harsh sanctions imposed by Western international locations for its brutal invasion of Ukraine in February.

Biden since mid-March had already been banned from visiting Russia, as have been Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Protection Lloyd Austin and Military Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Workers.

However the up to date record now contains Vice President Kamala Harris, in addition to Biden’s scandal-plagued son Hunter Biden, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, and Hillary Clinton, the previous secretary of state and first woman.

The actor Morgan Freeman and billionaire investor George Soros additionally made the record. Soros’ philanthropic assist of liberal causes, and teams within the former Soviet bloc, have made him a boogeyman for each Russia and right-wing conspiracy theorists.

Jen Psaki, who till this month served as Biden’s White Home press secretary, posted a sarcastic tweet in regards to the record Saturday night: “I assume we must cancel our August household journey to Moscow…”

Trump was not on the record of 963 banned Individuals.

Over time, Trump has praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticized investigations into Russia’s interference within the 2016 U.S. presidential election that ended with Trump’s victory over Democratic rival Clinton.

Trump was impeached in 2019 for withholding congressionally appropriated army support to Ukraine whereas pressuring that nation’s then-newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, to announce investigations into Joe Biden, who on the time was the main Democratic candidate for the White Home.

Trump was acquitted after a trial within the Senate.

On Saturday morning, in an interview with Fox News, Trump griped in regards to the Russia probe once more.

“This is likely one of the biggest political scandals in historical past,” Trump mentioned. “The place do I get my fame again?”

A spokeswoman for Trump didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon his omission from Russia’s travel-ban record.

Former President Barack Obama and Trump’s vp, Mike Pence, additionally aren’t on the record, however Pence’s brother, Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind., is banned.

So are 211 of Greg Pence’s fellow Republicans within the Home of Representatives and Senate — together with 224 Democratic members of each congressional chambers.

The GOP Home members on the banned record included two hard-core, Republican Trump supporters, Matt Gaetz of Florida and Arizona’s Paul Gosar.

Additionally making the record are two Democratic Home members whose strongly progressive coverage stances are anathema to Trump World: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and Minnesota’s Rep. Ilhan Omar.

So is Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who this week additionally was banned from receiving communion by the archbishop of the San Francisco Roman Catholic Archdiocese due to her assist for abortion rights.

In an announcement printed by Russia’s state information company RIA, the International Ministry mentioned, “Russian counter-sanctions are of a compelled nature and are aimed toward forcing the ruling American regime to alter its conduct” and acknowledge “new geopolitical realities.”

The ministry additionally accused the U.S. of making an attempt to impose a neo-colonial “rules-based world order” on the remainder of the world.

The ministry mentioned “hostile actions” taken by the U.S. authorities “boomerang again to hit the US itself” and “will proceed to obtain correct rebuffs.”

Russia additionally has barred entry to the nation to a whole lot of Canadians, amongst them Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, and a whole lot of members of the UK’s Parliament.