Trump Flaunts His Threat to NATO and the US
The former president makes clear he would destabilize Europe and imperil national security if he were to regain the White House.
Clear and present danger.
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How and where Donald Trump will degrade US foreign policy and threaten national security if he regains the White House remains an educated guessing game — apart from the clear danger he poses to stability and democracy in Europe.
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina on Saturday, Trump recalled a possibly apocryphal conversation he claimed he had with “the president of a big country” in Europe. They were chatting, he said, about the failure of most European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to pay their fair share of the alliance’s defense funding.