Once-Bitten Europe Is Better Prepared for Trump’s NATO Tirades
- Trump drew angry White House rebuke over his comments on NATO
- European officials have different recollections of the summits
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Donald Trump’s latest provocation — reciting an old conversation where he said he’d let Russia do “whatever the hell they want” to NATO members in arrears — had officials in Europe going back to that time and remembering it somewhat differently.
Several European officials who interacted with Trump at multiple summits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization said they couldn’t recall the version of events the former president and current Republican front-runner shared with a rally of supporters in South Carolina, nor that he ever went as far as saying he’d invite a Russian attack.