Former President Trump’s communications director Anthony Scaramucci on Tuesday criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin following recent comments about how the former president encouraged Russian aggression against “delinquent” NATO members. She quipped that she was in a “romantic relationship” with him.
“He has a romantic relationship with Vladimir Putin, so I don’t think anyone in the Western world understands that romantic relationship…Western leaders understand that romantic relationship.” Scaramucci said. Said He said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday. “I don’t think anyone in the intelligence community understands the affair because President Vladimir Putin is objectively calling for republics to be reattached to the former Soviet Union.”
President Trump said during a weekend rally in South Carolina. told the audience when an unidentified foreign leader questioned him about threatening not to defend member states that did not meet their funding goals for the security alliance.
The former president claimed to have told the leadership that he would “encourage” Russia to do whatever it wanted, recalling, “You didn’t pay?” you are a delinquent. ”
Scaramucci on Tuesday pointed to the war between Russia and Ukraine and said the United States “has an obligation to the Ukrainian people.”
“People are saying, ‘We’ll stop when we get to where we want to go in Ukraine,’ but we’re not going to stop,” he said. “Okay, so when Mr. Trump speaks like that… he’s pursuing America’s interests, and he’s pursuing a footprint of peace and prosperity around the world.”
Scaramucci, who served in the White House for 11 days as part of Trump’s campaign team before being fired by the then-president, said Trump’s second term would “harm ordinary citizens” in the United States and spark more wars. We have repeatedly warned that this is a possibility.
During his presidency, Trump repeatedly pressured member states to allocate 2% of their gross domestic product to defense spending and repeatedly threatened to withdraw from the alliance.
“Well, he wanted to leave in 2016, but he didn’t like the 2016 treaty,” Scaramucci said. “So he told everyone during his term that if he was re-elected he would do everything in his power to take the United States out of NATO, but remember all of this: ‘We’ve got to pay something. He really understands the treaty. No one actually sat down with him and explained this treaty to him. ”
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said: at least half It is expected to reach 2% of the 31-member Union in 2024, an increase from previous years. 7 members in 2022.
President Trump on Monday stepped up his criticism of international military alliances, insisting they will grow stronger under his leadership in the White House.
“I made NATO stronger, and even RINOS and the Radical Left Democratic Party recognize that,” Trump said Monday. Post to Truth Social. “When I told the 20 countries that hadn’t paid their fair share that they had to pay or they wouldn’t have the protection of the U.S. military, the money started rolling in.”
“It was a beautiful sight after the United States had picked up the tab for years. But now they’re starting to do it again without me being there and saying, ‘You have to pay.’ ” he added.
His swirling comments about the alliance have come under intense scrutiny from various U.S. and Western officials, including President Biden, who called the comments “appalling and dangerous.”
Stoltenberg argued that President Trump’s comments endangered the security of U.S. forces and allies, and the former president’s main Republican challenger, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, cited President Putin. He said people should not “take sides with thugs.”
President Trump has been criticized in the past for his apparent friendliness to foreign dictators. Last year, while he was in the Oval Office, he claimed he was “the apple of President Putin’s eye.”
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