Trump and the head of NATO analyze the global challenges of the military alliance
▲ Mark Rutte (left), during a meeting with Donald Trump in 2019.Photo Ap
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La Jornada Newspaper
Sunday, November 24, 2024, p. 17
Brussels. Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States, and Mark Rutte, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), discussed the challenges facing the military alliance in terms of global security. The Republican also announced the nominations of Sebastian Gorka as White House advisor on the fight against terrorism; Russell Vought, budget chief; Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture, and Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Trump and Rutte met yesterday in Florida and discussed the range of global security issues facing the alliancesaid a NATO statement released yesterday without giving more details.
Rutte, who took command of NATO in October, also met with Trump’s nominee for national security adviser, Michael Waltz.
On the other hand, Donald Trump appointed ultra-conservative commentator and politician Sebastian Gorka, who also has British and Hungarian nationality, and was accused of belonging to a Hungarian neo-Nazi organization; He even attended the inaugural ball of Trump’s first term wearing the honorary medal of Vitezi Rend, an organization linked to Nazism, although he assured that the medal belonged to his father.
Russel Vought will direct the Office of Management and Budget, a position he already held in the Republican’s first term. Vought is founder of the Center for American Renewal, which promotes a consensus that the United States is one nation under God.
Agricultural development attorney Brooke Rollins, the incoming Secretary of Agriculture, is his former national policy chief and was an aide to former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Leading the FDA will be Johns Hopkins surgical oncologist Marty Makary, to correct course and reorient the agencyTrump stated and added that this lost its main objective as a regulator in Biden’s mandate.