Told ya: Exxon wants Trump to waiver sanctions against Russia

See? We told you this was coming. According to The New York Times, Exxon, who had Donald Trump's secretary of state Rex Tillerson as its CEO until recently, wants the Trump administration to waiver sanctions imposed to Russia over its intervention in Ukraine so Exxon can drill in the Black Sea. Waiver was filed during the Obama administration but was not accepted. Now Exxon wants Trump go give the green light.

We told you this was coming. We told ya.

From the New York Times Article:

Exxon Mobil is pursuing a waiver from Treasury Department sanctions on Russia to drill in the Black Sea in a venture with Rosneft, the Russian state oil company, a former State Department official said on Wednesday. An oil industry official confirmed the account.

The waiver application was made under the Obama administration, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity, and the company has not dropped the proposal.

But here's the interesting part: a former Treasury Department official named Hal Eren told The New York Times such waiers "were rarely requested or granted and that in most cases such permission was given only for environmental or safety reasons. The Exxon request is particularly unlikely to succeed, he said, because of the narrow nature of the current sanctions. Jeffers added that he doesn't think the Trump administration would issue a license "especially given the political context in which this takes place.”

Really? Well, that's Donald Trump. And that's Vladimir Putin, who is clearly getting preferential treatment from Trump because he helped hack the 2016 election.

And if you remember, the sanctions against Russia was exactly what Michael Flynn talked about with the Russian embassador. And that got him fired from his National Security Adviser job.

So if Trump authorizes the waiver, we'll know who is really in charge in the White House.