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Republican senators McConnell and Tillis break with Trump on Nato withdrawal
The Guardian ^ | Thu 2 Apr 2026 | Chris Stein

Posted on 04/02/2026 1:55:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A second Republican senator spoke out in defense of Nato on Thursday, joining Mitch McConnell and the Democrats, after Donald Trump said that he was “absolutely” considering withdrawing from the alliance after it refused to take part in the joint assault with Israel against Iran.

“Nato stood by America when we were under attack and came to our aid after the September 11th attacks. Their soldiers fought and died alongside our troops in Afghanistan,” said Thom Tillis, a Republican, and Jeanne Shaheen, a Democrat, who co-chair the Senate Nato observer group.

“Any president that contemplates attempting to withdraw from Nato is not only fulfilling Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping’s greatest dreams but would be undermining America’s own national security interests.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: European Union; US: Kentucky; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: dementiamitch; mitchgohome; theturtle

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1 posted on 04/02/2026 1:55:30 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let’s be serious here, Mitch McConnell? Can he even speak any more?


2 posted on 04/02/2026 1:56:29 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

I thought he was dead.


3 posted on 04/02/2026 1:56:57 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MinorityRepublican

2 war pigs.


4 posted on 04/02/2026 1:57:22 PM PDT by meyer (CONGRATULATIONS WORLD, IT’S TIME FOR PEACE!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Lame duck RINOs are the worst of the worst.


5 posted on 04/02/2026 1:58:31 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tillis is a known freak in NC. All kinds of things swirling around about him. Probably hooks up with Noem’s husband online.


6 posted on 04/02/2026 1:59:16 PM PDT by Battlestar (Tired of transgenders, drug addicts, and mentally ill taking over our streets, schools, government)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Strong, the TDS is in those two.


7 posted on 04/02/2026 1:59:44 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The usual suspects. 🙄


8 posted on 04/02/2026 1:59:44 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Both of these turds will be flushed this year.


9 posted on 04/02/2026 2:02:30 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: MinorityRepublican

September 11th was 25 years ago.


10 posted on 04/02/2026 2:04:54 PM PDT by Tallguy
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To: FLT-bird

I’d play their game as long as they have a high ACU rating. Problem is the ones who back stab at critical moments.


11 posted on 04/02/2026 2:05:37 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

Does McConnell even know where he is?


12 posted on 04/02/2026 2:06:27 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. )
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“Republican senators McConnell and Tillis break with Trump”

What else is new?
RINOs gonna Rino.

Both disgraced jackarses will be gone soon enough.


13 posted on 04/02/2026 2:10:37 PM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Senators need to stay in their lane


14 posted on 04/02/2026 2:11:10 PM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: MinorityRepublican

Two morons with no understanding of negotiation, beyond bribery.


15 posted on 04/02/2026 2:14:47 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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It should have been sunset after the fall of the Soviet Union. If we HAVE to stay part of it we should just cut back on the money we spend on it.


16 posted on 04/02/2026 2:21:14 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We can stay in NATO after Trump just announces to the world we will not respond to a NATO request for assistance to any country refusing us air or landing rights.


17 posted on 04/02/2026 2:35:19 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: dfwgator

He is, from the neck up and has been for a long time.


18 posted on 04/02/2026 2:36:27 PM PDT by vis a vis
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Mitch McConnell has NO clue what day of the week it literally is ... Tillis is one of those Babylon Catholics .. that sittest a ‘queen’... IT is Written one cannot serve TWO masters ... and this Tillis punk is prime example of a double minded leach.
19 posted on 04/02/2026 2:44:12 PM PDT by Just mythoughts (Matthew 24:32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, )
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To: 1Old Pro

McConnell and Tillis - the 2 a-holes who are the most despised R Senators in DC by the base. It is no surprise at all they would run to join the rats to oppose Trump on this. Nato stabbed us in the back but these worthless traitors are fine with that.


20 posted on 04/02/2026 2:50:51 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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