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Ben Ferguson: “They just said, we're not going to enforce them, so they're…”

Featuring: Ben Ferguson, Conservative | Talk Show Host | National

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That is a lie. That is not true. That's the, that's the right wing lying to you. And it was true, by the way. They had not like gotten rid of sanctions. They just said, we're not going to enforce them, so they're meaningless. Well, they stopped enforcing them. And what they allowed to grow was, was this ghost fleet of ships, some 400 ships, some 400 tankers, many of them flagged under the flag of Panama. (19:47–19:51)

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Asserts that the Biden administration's lack of enforcement rendered sanctions meaningless.

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