Greetings. I am a voting constituent in rural west Texas.
While we watch escalating events in the Middle East just a reminder of what the world might look like if the leading GOP candidate for president manages to claw his way back into the White House.
As revealed in a recent Politico article…
“One of Europe's most senior politicians recounted how former U.S. President Donald Trump privately warned that America would not come to the EU's aid if it was attacked militarily.
"You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you," Trump told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in 2020, according to French European Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was also present at a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
"By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO," Trump also said, according to Breton. "And he added, ‘and by the way, you owe me $400 billion, because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you had to pay for defense,'" Breton said about the tense meeting, where the EU's then-trade chief Phil Hogan was also present.”
While we watch the patient, persistent, hopefully productive efforts of a legion of international diplomats trying to avert a world-wide conflict, please be reminded of the skills of the man you think should lead the country. The skills of a blustering bully.
And nothing more.
This is not leadership.
