Trump signals US will allow Russian oil tanker to reach Cuba

President Trump said Sunday night that he’s OK with a Russian oil tanker delivering its payload to Cuba, effectively relaxing a blockade that has plunged the island into an energy crisis. 

Reporters aboard Air Force One asked Trump about a New York Times report that the United States would allow the tanker filled with crude oil to reach Cuba. 

“We have a tanker out there. We don’t mind having somebody get a boatload, because they need…they have to survive,” he said. 

“If a country wants to send some oil into Cuba right now, I have no problem whether it’s Russia or not.”

Trump said he was not worried about helping Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has already seen a jump in oil and gas revenue amid the Iran war. 

“It doesn’t help him. He loses one boatload of oil, that’s all it is. If he wants to do that, and if other countries want to do it, that doesn’t bother me much. It’s not going to have an........

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