German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to U.S. President Donald Trump during the second day of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 9, 2018. Bundesregierung/Jesco Denzel/Handout via REUTERS
Axios: Scoop: Trump's private NATO trashing rattles allies
You've already read a hundred stories about President Trump's clashes with some of America's closest allies at the G7 summit in Canada. But we've got new details from his private conversations with heads of state that have put some of these leaders on edge leading into next month's NATO summit.
What we're hearing: In one extraordinary riff during his meeting with the G7 heads of state earlier this month in Quebec, Trump told the other leaders: "NATO is as bad as NAFTA." An official read this quote to me from notes transcribed from the private meeting.
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Update #1: Trump told G-7 leaders that ‘NATO is as bad as NAFTA’: report (The Hill)
Update #2: Leaked Transcript Shows Trump Throwing a Fit at US Allies During Private G7 Meeting — And Trashing NATO as 'Bad as NAFTA' (Alertnet)
WNU Editor: We are hearing this now .... three weeks after the G7 meeting ....and from an anonymous official reading a quote from notes transcribed from the private meeting. Hmmmm .... if President Trump had said those remarks, it would lave leaked out within a day by every leader in that room. But President Trump did say this in March .... Trump reportedly is joking about pulling the US military out of NATO, and no allies are laughing (Business Insider).
6 comments:
But still, if he said it; he is still not wrong.
And Putin agrees. of course
anyone with one once of manhood or a brain would agree its not rocket science. its called math lol
wow, Chase and Antitroll need to take their advice, use their brains, stop being blind and read a history book or two.
Quit acting like idiots.
Speaking not on behalf of but in defence of Fred.
What history book are you referring to?
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