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A former Republican presidential adviser who now frequently criticizes President Donald Trump argued on Wednesday that the current GOP leader has weakened America militarily \u2014 and, in the process, made himself weaker politically.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNATO was built by men like Harry Truman and Dean Acheson, George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower, sustained by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton,\u201d Steve Schmidt, who worked for President George W. Bush explained in reference to Trump\u2019s recent visit to NATO and threats to withdraw America from the longstanding alliance. \u201cIt is the most successful military alliance in world history. It is what emerged from what Franklin Roosevelt called the United Nations \u2014 an alliance of free nations bound together by common defense, that says an attack on one is an attack on all. It is the greatest deterrent force in history, and Donald Trump despises it like he despises the values of these free nations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt then quoted Trump speaking during his visit to NATO in Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was very disappointed with NATO,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd frankly, if it weren’t held in Turkey, where my friend happens to be a very strong leader, a very strong person, I \u2014 it’s possible that I wouldn’t have attended. I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he’s gone all out \u2014 it was a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey, or any place else, it’s a big thing \u2014 but we weren’t treated well because we did something in Iran. We don’t need anybody’s help. I didn’t even want their help, but before I asked, they said they wouldn’t be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schmidt condemned Trump\u2019s remarks, arguing that they have weakened America in its foreign policy and caused Trump to be ranked as among the nation\u2019s worst presidents, if not the worst.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince he became president, Trump has lifted up our adversaries, insulted our allies, and made the world more dangerous,\u201d Schmidt wrote. \u201cWe have never been weaker. A war lost to Iran \u2014 and the evidence of that is the Iranians have started the war again. They are humiliating the United States in the Persian Gulf, and Trump, who once mocked Jimmy Carter, is more impotent by an exponent of a hundred gazillion than Jimmy Carter was on the day that Trump might point to as his lowest and his weakest.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He added, \u201cOnce again, Trump is threatening Denmark. It is incredible \u2014 the architect of the lost war to Iran, an incontinent, obese 80-year-old who slurs his speech, can’t walk in a straight line.\u201d Schmidt then played a clip of Trump falsely claiming that \u201cDenmark doesn’t spend money to really help Greenland, but it’s an important part for the United States, and it’s surrounded by China ships and Russian ships, and that’s not gonna happen. The ships \u2014 it’s not gonna happen. It was Greenland that, in my \u2014 and it continues to be \u2014 should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n

In fact, America has had complete access to Greenland from a military perspective since 1951, meaning Trump is incorrect when he argues that the United States must acquire the island either for its sake or that of the United States. Yet although Trump has \u201cwrecked\u201d the United States\u2019 role in a crucial alliance, Schmidt said he believes that his weakening of America could weaken him politically, as long as Democrats are savvy enough to avail themselves of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a few weeks it will be the fall,\u201d Schmidt said. \u201cLabor Day will be here faster than we can imagine, and then it will be a race to November. In November, we have to put a check on this. We have to have people who can tell Donald Trump no, that have the strength of character to investigate what’s happening and what’s going on. And one has to wonder if the Democratic leaders in the Congress are up to that job.\u201d<\/p>\n

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