Yikes…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and MSNBC host Jen Psaki said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is likely blackmailing Donald Trump.
Pelosi asked the former White House press secretary what leverage Putin has against Trump on NATO.
“What does [Putin] have on Donald Trump that he’d have to constantly be catering to Putin, telling Putin, go into these countries?” Pelosi wondered.
When asked by Psaki what Putin could be holding as blackmail on Trump, Pelosi claimed it was likely “financial.”
“I don’t know what [Putin] has on [Trump], but I think it’s probably financial. It is probably financial. It’s either something financial [Putin] has on [Trump] or something on the come, something that he expects to get.”
Pelosi was referring to Trump’s recent words for NATO allies at a campaign rally in February, calling on NATO members to pay their dues.
“NATO was busted until I came along,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.”
The Republican presidential frontrunner has repeatedly claimed that member countries should not receive protection if they do not pay their share toward NATO’s budget.
Psaki commented on the interview after it aired.
“Never holds back…This is a fairly extraordinary thing for a former Speaker to say about a former president and a Russian dictator (for good reason btw!)” she wrote on X.
“Nancy, just like Crooked Joe, seems to have lost all of her marbles after years of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital in a statement.
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