Trump Planned to Pull Out of NATO

An excerpt from I Alone Can Fix It by Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker suggests what might have been:

“In fact, Trump had privately indicated that he would seek to withdraw from NATO and to blow up the U.S. alliance with South Korea, should he win reelection. When those alliances had come up in meetings with Esper and other top aides, some advisers warned Trump that shredding them before the election would be politically dangerous.”

Said Trump: “Yeah, the second term. We’ll do it in the second term.”