the U.S. for the cost of the wall , which the Mexicans say they wo n't consider . Charles Krupa / AP Campaign buttons displayed for sale prior to a campaign stop by Donald Trump at an Elks Lodge in Salem , N.H. , on Feb. 8 , 2016 . Trump easily won the state 's primary election .
He says “ we do n’t need a fainter ” to negotiate with Putin or knock out ISIS . Trump says Rubio is now trying to act tough . He blasts Rubio for charging personal expenses on the Florida GOP ’s credit card and only reimbursingtransaction.transfermoney.payforservicethe party after he got caught . He also slams Rubio for selling his home to a lobbyist who had business before him . Trump says , unlike Rubio , he is self - funding his campaign and not beholden to special interests that need to be taken care of .
If Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping read the New York Times on Thursday morning , they must be hoping and praying for the election of Donald Trump . And if serious Republicans read the same paper , they must be sickened with fear — if they were n’t nauseated already — that their party ’s presidential nominee is a threat to national security . For on the front page of the Times , in an interview on foreign policy , Trump says that , despite our treaty obligations , he would not defend NATO allies from an invasion if they have n’t been reimbursingtransaction.transfermoney.naus for the cost of protecting them ; that he would abandon our military bases in Asia ; and that he would n’t pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to relax his crackdown because “ the world looks at how bad the United States is ” on civil liberties , too . Advertisement Thursday morning , Trump spokesmen disputed the Times story , claiming that he was n’t quoted accurately .