Trump’s private NATO trashing rattles allies

The following article by Jonathan Swan was posted on the Axios website June 28, 2018:

Pres. Trump and British Prime Minister May at last year’s NATO summit. Credit: Justin Tallis, AFP/Getty Images

You’ve already read a hundred stories about President Trump’s clashes with some of America’s closest allies at the G7 summit in Canada. But we’ve got new details from his private conversations with heads of state that have put some of these leaders on edge leading into next month’s NATO summit.

What we’re hearing: In one extraordinary riff during his meeting with the G7 heads of state earlier this month in Quebec, Trump told the other leaders: “NATO is as bad as NAFTA.” An official read this quote to me from notes transcribed from the private meeting.

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