Donald Trump seated next to the flag of NATO (Photo from Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images).
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Behind Trump’s Calls to Withdraw from NATO
During the first presidential debate on June 27, Joe Biden and Donald Trump went back and forth on a number of subjects, including immigration, abortion, and of course, most importantly, golf. But one topic that attentive listeners might have noticed the candidates breeze through came when Biden said, referring to Trump, "This is the guy who wants to get out of NATO." Biden followed this by asking Trump, "[are] you going to stay in NATO, or are you gonna pull out of NATO?"