How much more evidence does America need that Donald Trump isn't working for us, but for Russia?
No, seriously. Trump can't stop talking about removing America from NATO.
Trump hasn't had an original idea in his whole life. Who told him that'd be a good idea?
Who wants the USA out of NATO? Russia.
"It would be the wildest success that Vladimir Putin could dream of." — Michèle Flournoy, an under secretary of defense under Obama.
From the New York Times' Julian E. Barnes and Helene Cooper:
Senior administration officials told The New York Times that several times over the course of 2018, Mr. Trump privately said he wanted to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Current and former officials who support the alliance said they feared Mr. Trump could return to his threat as allied military spending continued to lag behind the goals the president had set.
In the days around a tumultuous NATO summit meeting last summer, they said, Mr. Trump told his top national security officials that he did not see the point of the military alliance, which he presented as a drain on the United States.
At the time, Mr. Trump's national security team, including Jim Mattis, then the defense secretary, and John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, scrambled to keep American strategy on track without mention of a withdrawal that would drastically reduce Washington's influence in Europe and could embolden Russia for decades.
Now, the president's repeatedly stated desire to withdraw from NATO is raising new worries among national security officials amid growing concern about Mr. Trump's efforts to keep his meetings with Mr. Putin secret from even his own aides, and an F.B.I. investigation into the administration's Russia ties.
What more proof does America need?
No matter. More is coming.
