Posted on 12/08/2024 10:03:57 AM PST by Navy Patriot
Donald Trump doubled down Sunday on hard-line campaign pledges to impose trade tariffs and carry out mass deportations, while dangling the idea that the United States could withdraw from NATO.
In his first formal television interview -- and just six weeks before he takes office -- Trump again signaled that US support for Ukraine will scale back, saying he will "probably" cut the aid helping Kyiv repel the Russian invasion.
Trump also said he would "very quickly" look at pardons for supporters jailed for storming the US Capitol after his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.
The interview on NBC's "Meet the Press with Kristen Welker" was taped Friday but aired Sunday, following Trump's meetings with the presidents of France and Ukraine over the weekend -- his first foreign trip since winning the November election against Biden.
Trump reiterated his familiar threat to leave NATO, the cornerstone of security in Europe since World War II, saying that US allies do not pay enough for their defense.
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This announcement of possibility comes at a very good time. They will not let Zelenskyy in if they think Trump is going to pull out especially if they do.
No NATO deals before Trump can get in there.
Now, just throw in withdrawal from the UN .. along with the removal of the UN Headquarters from the United States .. and everything will be just fine!
We withdraw from NATO, we become the intermediates in UKRAINE between Russia and the Ukrainians.
The Soviet Union is dead and buried and NATO has become too big to fail and now is just a cash cow for defense corporations. Another smart idea by Trump, hope he follows through.
Agree!
Remember the "peace dividend" we were supposed to get after the end of the Cold War? Spent it all on NATO expansion.
Dare we also expect a withdrawal from the UN?
Agree.
I hope we pull the hell out of the UnitedNazis and FAST!
and let that moral cesspool move to an appropriate country away from Anerica. far away
Oh no!
But what about all those billions of dollars the American people will be keeping?
A lot of nads just went "go" as the pocket books of Europe have just realized their own precarious future.
We need to kick out the United Nations out of the USA and World Health Organization next !
Defund Nation Public Radio .
“NATO has become too big to fail and now is just a cash cow for defense corporations.”
Bingo.
Problem Solved!
Pedos and eurogrifters (same thing) are going to haz a sad.
It’s not a new idea. Look at the release date for this book. It was so good I read it while at a Club Med resort in 1993.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/1986-12-01/how-nato-weakens-west
You can still buy it on Amazon.
https://www.amazon.com/NATO-weakens-West-Melvyn-Krauss/dp/0671544551
Most of the times that I hear DJT stake out an extreme position, I think “the art of the deal.” So many in media have a knee-jerk reaction to those statements. It’s good troll-bait for the likes of Joy and Whoopi.
“IOW, a negotiating tactic”
Exactly right.
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