Former President Trump Does Not Want 'NATO Lovers' In The Upper Ranks Of A Second Administration

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Rolling Stone: Trump Plots to Pull Out of NATO — If He Doesn’t Get His Way

At the very least, the former president wants to put the U.S. on “standby” mode — and undermine NATO’s principle of collective defense Donald Trump wanted to pull the United States out of NATO during his first term, but was repeatedly talked out of it by senior administration officials.

For a possible second term in the White House, the 2024 Republican presidential frontrunner is already discussing how he could actually get it done, if his demands aren’t met by NATO. He and his policy-wonk allies are also gaming out how he could dramatically wind down American involvement to merely a “standby” position in NATO, in Trump’s own words.

When the former president has privately discussed the United States’ role in the transatlantic military alliance this year, Trump has made clear that he doesn’t want the upper ranks of a second administration to be staffed by “NATO lovers,” according to two sources who’ve heard him make such comments. The ex-president has made these kinds of jabs at the longstanding alliance during conversations related to the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.

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WNU Editor: The Washington political class and the Biden administration are freaking out (See links below):

Trump’s reported plan for NATO makes him 'biggest internal threat to national security': expert (Alertnet)

Trump's Plan to Destroy NATO Would Spark Untold Chaos (American Prospect)

"The biggest internal threat": Trump threatens to pull US out of NATO — again -- Salon

Update: Candidate Trump is not alone .... Ramaswamy considering 'reevaluating' US United Nations membership, scaling back NATO involvement: report (FOX News). More here .... Ramaswamy: U.S. pulling out of NATO is 'reasonable,' as is 'reevaluating' UN membership (Politico).