Mitch McConnell Takes Stand Against Donald Trump

Two senators, including Republican Mitch McConnell, issued a warning to President Donald Trump on Wednesday after he suggested the United States could withdraw from NATO.

In a joint statement, McConnell and Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat, said the bloc was the most “successful military alliance in history,” in an apparent rebuttal to Trump’s ongoing disparagement of the organization.

“Alliance disputes are as old as the alliance itself. Americans are safer when NATO is strong and united,” the senators wrote. “It is in our interest for all allies to tend this unity with care.”

McConnell is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, while Coons is the ranking member.

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