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Under increasing political pressure from both political parties in Washington, the Trump administration on Thursday finally imposed financial sanctions on Russian government hackers and spy agencies to punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, and for a cyberattack against Ukraine and other countries last year that officials have characterized as “the most destructive and costly” in history. These are not, however, the broad-based sanctions envisioned in the sanctions legislation passed by Congress nearly unanimously last year. And why hasn’t Trump given a speech denouncing Russia’s attack on our democracy? He has no problem denouncing anybody else.