CLEVELAND – Nigel Farage, the ex-leader of the UK Independence Party who pushed for the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union, praised some aspects of Donald Trump’s recent NATO posturing, but stopped short of suggesting the alliance should be done away with altogether.
“I think his first position where he said NATO should pay its way, I think he’s right,” Farage told TPM from the floor of the Quicken Loans Arena Thursday afternoon. “But I wouldn’t scrap it, I would just redefine what it is.”
In an interview with the New York Times Wednesday, Trump floated breaking the terms of the U.S.’s NATO obligations if other member countries did not fulfill theirs. NATO’s chief as well as leaders of participating countries have pushed back against the comments.
