NBC Guest: If Trump Was President, He Would Let Russia Invade Ukraine

If you were watching NBC’s Meet the PressYou received your Sunday dose of alternative history and liberal bias on Sunday. This is not to say that it wasn’t your average episode. Chuck Todd joined his panel guests to discuss the conflict in Ukraine. New York Times’s Helene Cooper decided to speculate what the situation in Europe would be like if former President Donald Trump was still in office. 

Helene Cooper, New York Times Pentagon correspondent, was clearly angered after Trump gave a speech at the rally in South Carolina where he said that if Trump was still President Vladimir Putin would not have invaded Ukraine. 

“I would love to just game out where we would be right now if Donald Trump was still President and Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine” Cooper interjected. “First of all, Trump would already have pulled us out of NATO because that’s what he wanted to do. He began to withdraw American troops from Europe. The Pentagon kind of stalled out until Biden came into office.” 

Cooper continued her alternative history-filled rant claiming that Trump would’ve said “it’s not our problem, Ukraine is not our problem, that’s it, go off and do — this is not our business, and NATO, at this point, would have been completely divided. You would see disunity, you would see other NATO countries peeling off.” 

She ended her fantasy by demanding people don’t listen to Trump: “let’s make sure when Trump is saying this stuff about how much differently — if Donald Trump was President right now would be in a completely different place.” 

This is what journalism looks like. Journalism is the job of journalists to discover facts and communicate them to others. The job isn’t to make up scenarios that can never be proven one way or another. This is not the job. New York Times we’re talking about so nobody should be surprised that one of their reporters are telling stories on national television. 

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Below is the relevant transcript:

NBC’s Meet the Press
3/13/2022
Eastern at 11:26 

HELENE COOPER:  I would love to just game out where we would be right now if Donald Trump was still President and Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine. First, Trump would have already pulled us out NATO as that was what he wanted. Trump had already begun to pull American troops from Europe. Biden’s election saw the Pentagon slowing down. His first words would have been, It’s Not Our Problem, Ukraine is not Our Problem, Go on and Do — This is not our business. NATO at that point would be completely split. There would be disunity and you’d see NATO member countries separating. So what would we do? This would cause the disintegration of the alliance. We need to be clear about Trump’s statements regarding how different things would look if he were President.