Former U.S. President Joe Biden criticized his successor, Donald Trump, for his approach to NATO and Russia during a Democratic Party fundraising gala in Maryland on June 27, in one of his rare public speeches since leaving office in 2025.
Speaking ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections, Biden accused Trump of “destroying NATO” and “choosing (Russian President Vladimir) Putin over American allies.”
“It’s not just his deliberate distortion and destruction of NATO and his choosing Putin over American allies or the fact that he’s diminished our standing in the eyes of the world more than any president in history has,” Biden
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