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Tim Kaine: “He has hurt NATO badly by imposing tariffs on NATO countries…”

Featuring: Tim Kaine, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Virginia

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Published | Video Starts at 07:48

And if the President were to announce, I'm withdrawing from NATO, it would be like Donald Trump saying, the sun will come up in the west tomorrow. It would be an irrelevant falsehood. He can't withdraw without us. However, He has hurt NATO badly by imposing tariffs on NATO countries without any consultation. by waging wars that are affecting the economies of NATO nations without any consultation. And now he's blaming them for not coming to the US Aid with respect to the straits elementary human relations. (07:48–07:55)

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Asserts that the President imposed tariffs on NATO countries without consultation, harming NATO.

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