Tom Cotton echoes fellow GOP senators, saying former president was \u2018simply ringing the warning bell\u2019<\/p>\n
US politics \u2013 follow live<\/a><\/p>\n A leading Republican senator said Donald Trump was \u201csimply ringing the warning bell\u201d when he caused global alarm by declaring<\/a> he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies<\/a> who did not pay enough to maintain the alliance, as Trump\u2019s party closed ranks behind its presumptive presidential nominee.<\/p>\n \u201cNato countries that don\u2019t spend enough on defense, like Germany, are already encouraging Russian aggression and President Trump is simply ringing the warning bell,\u201d Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a former soldier, told the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tom Cotton echoes fellow GOP senators, saying former president was \u2018simply ringing the warning bell\u2019 US politics \u2013 follow live A leading Republican senator said Donald Trump was \u201csimply ringing the warning bell\u201d when he caused global alarm by declaring he would encourage Russia to attack Nato allies who did not pay enough to maintain … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}