Meanwhile, it looks like Russia tried to off a defector and his daughter in the UK using nerve gas last week. The attack also seriously poisoned a British police officer, and may have exposed as many as 500 people to the gas.
How do we know it's Russia behind it?
PM Teresa May addressed the House of Commons earlier today about the incident:
"Based on the positive identification of this chemical agent [as Novichok] by world-leading experts at Porton Down, our knowledge that Russia has previously produced this agent and would still be capable of doing so, Russia’s record of conducting state-sponsored assassinations, and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations, the government has concluded that it is highly likely that Russia was responsible for the act against Sergei and Yulia Skripal."
Russia's response? Basically, "Call us when you have some real proof..."
Sarah Huckabee "Poot Lips" Sanders was asked about it at today's press briefing. She called the attack "reckless" and "irresponsible" and "an outrage", but pointedly never mentioned Russia, and deflected when asked about the possibility of Russian involvement.
Teresa May isn't holding back.
"Should there be no credible response [from Russia], we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom."
In that case, would El Presidente come to the UK's aid as per Article 5 of the NATO treaty?
A real President, like Hillary Clinton (or Joe Biden, seen in the attached photo chatting with a homeless person when he didn't know anyone was taking a photo), would have called up May (and let himself be photographed doing it, with a transcript of the conversation released to the press), sent a senior official (VP or SecState) over to London as a show of support, cooperate with any sanctions the UK would put in place, and lean on NATO to issue a joint statement condemning the attack.
But so far, all Trump's done is offer technical assistance in identifying and dealing with the chemical, and the sharing of intelligence.
Which is something that gets done automatically, without any input from the president.....
So, who does Trump like more? One of our oldest and closest allies (and the country that basically gave birth to us), or wannabe Tsar Vladimir?