Europe Is Better Prepared If Trump Wins Again, Germany’s Baerbock Says
- Trump was ‘a total shock,’ foreign minister says in interview
- Baerbock’s stops in Texas, DC included outreach to Republicans
Annalena Baerbock
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German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Europe would be better prepared if Donald Trump returned to the White House after the shock of his ascent to the presidency in 2016.
“Back then, hardly anybody in Europe could have imagined that there would be a US president who questioned NATO,” an alliance that’s “a life insurance” for Europeans, Baerbock said Sunday in a Bloomberg Television interview. “So many things in the past were a total shock to us.”