Trump Still Views NATO as a Protection Racket

Published: Dec. 13, 2017, 11:03 p.m.

In a little-noted passage of his speech at a Saturday rally in Pensacola, Florida, mostly devoted to support for Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore, President Trump revived a theme that some of his aides had hoped he\u2019d abandoned\u2014his demeaning of America\u2019s allies, his dismissal of NATO as an outfit of no real use to U.S. interests, and his threat not to send troops to defend its members from attacks unless they pony up more money.