The former national security adviser for President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “was waiting” for Trump to withdraw the U.S. from NATO if he had won reelection.
“In a second Trump term, I think he may well have withdrawn from NATO,” John Bolton told The Washington Post in a virtual chat on Friday. “And I think Putin was waiting for that.”
Trump was a vocal critic of NATO and floated the possibility of leaving entirely while he was president. In a 2018 summit with NATO allies, for instance, Trump said the U.S. would “go it alone” unless NATO members…
