CNN
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) isn’t worried that Donald Trump publicly brushed off the U.S. commitment to NATO on Saturday night. His reason? Trump is not “a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.”
“He doesn’t talk like a traditional politician,” Rubio told CNN’s Jake Tapper on State of the Union on Sunday. “We’ve already been through this. You think people would have figured it out.
“What he’s basically saying is, if you see the comments, he said NATO was broke or busted until he took over because people weren’t paying their dues and then he told the story about how he used leverage to get people to step up to the plate and become more active in NATO. He’s not the first American president, in fact, virtually every American at some point in some way has complained about other countries and NATO not doing enough.”