TFG says he threatened not to defend NATO against Russia

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former president Donald Trump on Thursday offered his most explicit statement to date that he threatened not to defend NATO allies from attacks by Russia.

Appearing at an event held by the Heritage Foundation in Florida, Trump claimed that he told fellow NATO leaders that he might not abide by NATO’s Article 5 collective-defense clause if those countries didn’t pay more for the alliance.

A fellow leader “said, ‘Does that mean that you won’t protect us in case — if we don’t pay, you won’t protect us from Russia’ — was the Soviet Union, but now Russia,” Trump said. “I said, ‘That’s exactly what it means.’ ”

Trump implied that it was a negotiating tactic. “Now if I said, ‘No, I don’t mean that,’ then why would they pay? So somebody had to say it,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/22/trump-says-he-threatened-not-defend-nato-russia/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Pile of shit.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Who is surprised by this?

[speak easy]

4. Then comes Act 2

'they still won't pay their share .... we're outta there'

[duforsure]

3. He was going to shake them down for more money, again,

Then come up with more excuses to do nothing if they were attacked, and destroy NATO. He would have refused honoring the NATO agreement one way or another.

[anarch]

5. well I mean he works for Russia, so... (n/t)