Graham responds to Trump NATO comments: 'If you don't pay you get kicked out'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) responded to former President Trump’s recent comments on NATO, saying that he supports the former president’s calls to get members of the alliance to contribute what would be considered their fair share.

In recent days, Trump has doubled down on comments in which he claimed to have told a foreign leader while he was in office that if their country didn’t contribute enough to NATO, then Russia can “do whatever the hell they want.” Graham said that he supports members of NATO paying a fair share to the alliance during an interview on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”

“I want to have a system where if you don’t pay, you get kicked out. But no, I’m not inviting Russia to invade Ukraine,” Graham said Sunday. “President Trump is right to want NATO nations to meet their obligation of 2 percent.”

“We need to turn it into an obligation that means something. I’m a big fan of NATO, but there’s $70-80 billion left on the table. If you’re in NATO, pay the 2 percent,” he said.





Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/graham-responds-trump-nato-comments-163600769.html

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Lindsey, you butt licking creep, you know it's not a pool of money but a commitment by NATO countries to spend 2% of their GDP on the military. Trump is trying to impress his hero Putin and you're trying to impress Trump.

[Ocelot II]

1. I don't know how he can pull his lips away from Trump's taint long enough

to even make a statement. I guess TFG allows it as long as the statement is fawning enough and as long as Lindsey returns to his rightful place between those vast orange butt cheeks.

[Roy Rolling]

23. Sad commentary on Republicans

Graham can be blackmailed for his sexuality, his Republican colleagues would reject him I’d he were gay. And accept him if he betrays every other gay person by denying a person’s birthright.

People like Graham, who carry the water for evil bigots, are a menace to society.

[TexasBushwhacker]

2. It's my understanding that other NATO members

are covering for the non-payers, so NATO isn't really short any money.

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Expect NATO (and US) operations to increase....on all fronts.

Johnson (who?) does not get to fuck up US military doctrine in the our world European military strategy, post 2000.

[slightlv]

3. What a dumba$$ /nt

[liberalgunwilltravel]

4. My wish

Lindsey, I hope John McCain's ghost comes back and strangles you in your sleep. You are a stain on humanity.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

5. If not paying...

If not paying what you owe was a real thing, Donald, you would have been kicked out of the human race a long, long time ago. But worry not, your time is coming.

[doc03]

6. From what I uderstand nobody pays dues it

is just an agreement to spend 2% of their GDP on military.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

34. You understand it, and I understand it, and anyone with half a brain understands it,

but the Putin-loving branch of the Republicanski Party believes whatever their Dear Leader tells them.

If you look up "pathetic" in the dictionary there will be a picture of Lindsay Graham next to the definition.

[3825-87867]

7. Hey (Wealthy) Lindsey,

How about if the wealthy in AMERICA don't pay their fair share of taxes to help suppport America, we kick THEM out?

Only fair, right?

I'll wait excitedly for your response!

[BootinUp]

8. Lindsey don't need no signed treaty. He will just make new rules as he slithers.

[nickster48]

9. Hey Flimsy!

Isn’t there a phone call that YOU made to Georgia that we need to talk about?
How soon we forget!

[eppur_se_muova]

10. So he's a tfg-worshiper AND ignorant ?? This is surprising HOW exactly ?? nt

[Kennah]

11. Lindsey Graham: Reigning world champion in Twister

[RussBLib]

12. Oh Lindsey, it's time to hang it up

...you have become a sad joke. Look at what Traitor Trump has done to you. Have you any self-respect left?

https://russblib.blogspot.com

[Gore1FL]

13. It's weird that Republicans don't seem to understand how NATO works. nt

[twodogsbarking]

14. If I ever saw him in person I would say things that aren't nice. Use your wildest imagination and add to it.

[pecosbob]

15. "I want to have a system where if you don't pay, you get kicked out."

News flash...America pretty much doesn't care what you want, Lindsey. Now go carry water somewhere else (Bye, Felicia...)

[Evolve Dammit]

16. If McCain was still alive, maybe he's slap this lickspittle lackey a few times

[The Third Doctor]

17. Everything for Trump. Wasnt this guy in the military?

[Blue Idaho]

18. That little cocksucker

Will go down in history as the worst kind of fawning toady.

[twodogsbarking]

19. Graham Cracker strikes again.

[evolves]

20. He's just pathetic.

[twodogsbarking]

32. And very good at it.

[BlueNIndiana]

21. Lindsey is now wearing new shoes while he services Trump's mushroom

[PatrickforB]

22. Gosh, what statesmanship!

Sigh.

Graham leaked away whatever integrity he once had after McCain died. During those quiet times when he looks at himself in the mirror, I can only imagine how ashamed he must be.

Trump has destroyed the Republican party - those whose politics are odious but were willing to compromise to get things done are nearly no more. The sane ones are jumping ship like rats - Lamborn, Buck, others.

What amazes me is how this once 'Grand Old Party' allowed itself to be utterly duped by a broke-ass shoe salesman and reality TV host. And Trump? He is so profoundly self-centered he is willing to pull the whole thing down just to survive.

Well...I'm thinking the US will repudiate him in November and we will regain the House, keep the Senate and the White House. Abortion is like a huge millstone hanging around the collective GOP neck.

[Marcuse]

24. Trump is known to extort US allies, but this sounds like one of his fictional "Sir" stories. Is there confirmation?

[mahina]

25. It just seems really moblike, cheap and tawdry

especially as the world's biggest arms dealer.

[Silent Type]

27. I suspect there should be more in contributions, but now is not the time to start that junk.

Not to mention, junk from someone who ought to be in exile or something.

[OAITW r.2.0]

28. I remember Lindsey Graham.

He was a moralistic hypocrite during BC's impeachment trial. Only gotten more pathetic over time.

[Upthevibe]

29. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin ....

My God what tfg and others' must have on that p.o.s. Lindsey Graham.....

What a horrible, disgusting, sorry excuse for a human being he is........

[NBachers]

30. He's not President Trump, you pathetic little dickweed.

[jaxexpat]

31. Our very own Manchurian senator out to divine and portend* what will make "Fearless Leader" happy.

The dirty towel of American politics, Lindsey sees his shadow. Boris and Natassha were busy chasing squirrel, I guess.

* that's how we spell "pretend" for Lindsky

[RSherman]

33. Pretty rich coming from Trump, the original "Stiffer-in-Chief"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-stiffed-local-cops-who-worked-his-maga-rallies-now-its-coming-back-to-bite-him

Infamous for not paying contractors. Still owes rally cities $.

[GoodRaisin]

36. He's too chickenshit to correct Trump in public about what the 2%.number is.

So all the ignorant magats go on believing the NATO countries haven’t paid money.