US president Donald Trump paid $700M to 9/11 attacks victims, in order to save his deal with Sudan, and remove its name from the state sponsors of terrorism list (SSTL) next Monday as planned, according to ABC News.
The Trump administration aimed at saving his deal with Sudan, offering $700M to 9/11 attacks victims, to drop their pursuit of claims against the African country.
The administration is willing to save its deal with Sudan to normalize ties with Israel, trying to sooth another group of the American victims who were killed and injured in the 1998 embassy bombings.
"This whole episode just shows you that everything was planned for an announcement, and now they're trying to reverse engineer an agreement based on what they announced," Cameron Hudson, a former State Department and CIA official, said of the administration. "That's now how international diplomacy works."
On the other hand, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and Robert Menendez, the top Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, have been criticizing the State Department arrangement on Sudan's legal immunity. Nonetheless, they expressed their support of a "successful transition to democracy in Sudan"
The bills "overcome severe problems with the deal the State Department cut with Sudan that have tragically pitted different groups of victims of terrorism against one another," Schumer and Menendez said.
"We strongly support a successful transition to democracy in Sudan; making this deal work for victims of terrorism should not be in conflict with that goal," they stated in a statement on Wednesday, calling on Trump and Republicans "to step up to the plate and work with us."
The State Department spokesperson said only that the agency was "continuing our discussions" with Menendez.
Many parties are believed to participate in the approval and issuance of the resolution, most notably the US State Department
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