“In his future policies, including those on the Russian track US President-elect Donald Trump will rely on the commitments to the forces that brought him to power, rather than on election pledges, Russian presidential aide Nikolay Patrushev told the daily Kommersant in an interview. ‘The election campaign is over,’ Patrushev noted. ‘To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them,'” says an actual Kremlin press release via state media outlet TASS.
“He agreed that Trump, when he was still a candidate, ‘made many statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued by the current administration.’ ‘But very often election pledges in the United States can diverge from subsequent actions,’ he recalled.”