Former President Donald J. Trump’s march to the GOP nomination along with the push for continued U.S. funding of Ukraine has created an environment ripe for the reincarnation of debunked hoaxes and even Fox News is in on the game.
Trump’s vocal opposition to the seemingly endless squandering of American taxpayer dollars on European NATO countries to pay for their defense with remarks during a South Carolina rally over the weekend have been seized upon by the Biden regime and its allies to depict him as a loyal pawn of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the same plotline of the great Russiagate conspiracy theory.
On Monday’s edition of “Special Report,” Fox News chief political analyst Brit Hume pushed the latest in a long line of hoaxes and while not going as far as others who have portrayed Trump as a Kremlin sleeper agent, he suggested that the likely Republican party nominee’s words are practically an invitation for Putin to invade Europe.
(Video: Fox News)
Asked for his take on a Wall Street Journal Editorial Board column that stated that the former “dotes on dictators” by anchor Bret Baier, Hume responded and while tempering his criticism as just Trump being Trump, he still pushed the NATO hoax that has been concocted by the usual suspects.
“My guess about that Bret was it is, it’s typical Trump loose talk,” Hume said. “My guess is that he meant that as a way of threatening the NATO allies that haven’t paid their full freight to which they are supposedly committed and have said they would pay and they’re not doing it, all of them.”
“A lot of them are but some of them are not and so he’s trying to get them to pony up,” he continued. “But loose talk about possibly not backing our NATO allies in the event of an attack from an enemy, particularly including Russia, is not helpful.”
“The one thing that the war in Ukraine has done is it has brought NATO closer together, it has strengthened NATO’s hand, it has gotten more members into NATO, the alliance now stands at a greater strength than it has in some time and that’s a good thing,” he said. “And the president is not wrong that some allies have not paid their full freight, but this kind of talk tempts dictators, tempts aggressors, and doesn’t help.”
The lies about Trump’s remarks are being spread far and wide by Biden, Hillary Clinton, Liz Cheney and of course, Nikki Haley, whose candidacy is being propped up by warmongering donors and their media handmaidens, including Fox News.
NATO has been a 75-year success story. There hasn’t been war in the region because of NATO. It is a massive mistake for Donald Trump to side with a thug like Putin over our allies and it will put troops in harm’s way. pic.twitter.com/LerAtG5jQp
— Nikki Haley (@NikkiHaley) February 12, 2024
“I MADE NATO STRONG, and even the RINOS and Radical Left Democrats admit that,” Trump said in a Monday post to Truth Social. “When I told the 20 Countries that weren’t paying their fair share that they had to PAY UP, and said without doing that you will not have U.S. Military Protection, the money came rolling in.”
“After so many years of the United States picking up the tab, it was a beautiful sight to see. But now, without me there to say YOU MUST PAY, they are at it again,” the former and perhaps future president added
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