re: #60 Charles Johnson

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From the same WaPo article: I see he has doubled down on the extortion of our NATO allies as a way to replenish our coffers (or more likely to fill his pockets somehow—money laundering, anyone?) Emphasis mine:

Trump repeatedly said that McConnell is “100 percent wrong” and that as president he would demand that NATO countries that can afford to pitch in and help pay for their own defense do so.

“So all I’m saying is they have to pay,” Trump said. “Now, a country gets invaded, they haven’t paid, everyone says, ‘Oh, but we have a treaty.’ Well, they have a treaty, too. They’re supposed to be paying. We have countries within NATO that are taking advantage of us. With me, I believe they’re going to pay. And when they pay, I’m a big believer in NATO. But if they don’t pay, we don’t have, you know, Chuck, this isn’t 40 years ago. This isn’t 50 years ago. It’s not 30 years ago. We’re a different country today. We’re much weaker. Our military is depleted. We owe tremendous amounts of money.” […]

So POTUS as Mafia boss demanding payment for protection. ‘Cause, y’know, if you refuse he might send Putin & the Russian military to have a talk with you: “Nice little country you have there. It would be a shame in anything happened to it…”

I can’t believe this shit. Seriously. WTF, GOP??