{"id":29968,"date":"2019-12-02T20:26:53","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T20:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/12\/02\/impeachment-shadows-trump-on-trip-to-nato-leaders-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:53:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:53:27","slug":"impeachment-shadows-trump-on-trip-to-nato-leaders-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/leadership\/2019\/12\/02\/impeachment-shadows-trump-on-trip-to-nato-leaders-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Impeachment shadows Trump on trip to NATO leaders meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LONDON \u2014 Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of scheduling this week\u2019s impeachment hearing to undercut him during his trip abroad for a NATO summit playing out at a crucial moment for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/12\/02\/nato-under-friendly-fire-as-leaders-ready-for-london-summit\/\" target=_blank>the 70-year-old military alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As he departed the White House for London, Trump called the trip \u201cone of the most important journeys that we make as president\u201d and said Democrats had long known about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s trip to the U.K. comes amid ongoing quarrels over defense spending by NATO allies and widespread anxiety over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/08\/06\/nato-says-its-not-preparing-for-an-unlikely-us-withdrawal\/\" target=\"_blank\">the president\u2019s commitment to the alliance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president said his trip would be focused on \u201cfighting for the American people.\u201d But in the more than two months that the impeachment inquiry has been underway, he has constantly drifted back to what he frames as the Democrats\u2019 unfair effort to overturn the results of his 2016 election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday on the constitutional grounds for impeachment before Trump wraps up at the NATO summit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, White House counsel Pat Cipollone and presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway all complained about the timing, with Pompeo saying the hearings would \u201cdistract America\u2019s president from his important mission overseas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump insists he\u2019s solely focused on scoring domestic and foreign policy wins, including revamping NATO so that allies spend more on defense. But he\u2019s often appeared consumed by the day-to-day battle against impeachment.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/11\/16\/this-could-get-a-little-ugly-what-to-watch-for-at-the-nato-leaders-summit\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-996143054.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">\u2018This could get a little ugly.\u2019 What to watch for at the NATO leaders summit<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Say qualified observers: much as the event is billed as NATO\u2019s 70th birthday, politics could make the situation feel more like a funeral.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent days he\u2019s repeatedly lashed out about the \u201cimpeachment hoax\u201d and the \u201cscam\u201d inquiry, even delving into impeachment at a ceremony to celebrate NCAA athletes and at last week\u2019s annual Turkey pardon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House aides say the summit offers Trump an opportunity to counter the impeachment narrative in Washington and demonstrate to voters that he\u2019s keeping a business-as-usual approach while Democrats concentrate on the probe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But soon after Air Force One departed, Trump took to Twitter to slam \u201cDo Nothing Democrats\u201d for scheduling the hearing during the NATO meeting as \u201cNot nice!&#8221;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Madrid for a U.N. conference on climate change, declined to comment about the impeachment inquiry, saying, \u201cWhen we travel abroad, we don\u2019t talk about the president in a negative way. We save that for home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump is only the fourth U.S. president in history to face an impeachment inquiry. The gravity of impeachment is likely to play into the calculus of how other global leaders engage the president going forward, in the view of some analysts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn one sense impeachment is weakening his hand diplomatically,\u201d said Ted Galen Carpenter, a senior fellow for defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute in Washington. \u201cFor a normal president, it would be seen as a substantial problem. For Donald Trump, he\u2019s going to try to blow right through it and act is if that\u2019s not a relevant factor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NATO leaders meeting is a complicated backdrop for Trump to make his first extended overseas visit \u2014 he made a quick Thanksgiving visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan \u2014 since Democrats launched the impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/25\/nato-leader-tricky-times-show-need-for-international-groups\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19267619113359.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">NATO leader: Tricky times show need for international groups<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">While some world leaders championed national self-interest and decried globalism, NATO\u2019s secretary-general said Tuesday that the case for the alliance is only growing stronger.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump has repeatedly criticized fellow NATO members and complained that too few nations are on track to meet the alliance goal of spending at least 2% of GDP on defense by 2024. French President Emmanuel Macron recently lamented that a lack of U.S. leadership was causing the \u201cbrain death\u201d of the alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s former national security adviser John Bolton has said the president could move to leave the alliance if he wins reelection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who has warned that a second Trump term could mean NATO\u2019s effective dissolution, jokingly said Monday that he\u2019d \u201csay a prayer\u201d as the president heads to London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s time for redemption,\u201d Biden told reporters as he campaigned in Emmetsburg, Iowa. \u201cBut so far he\u2019s treated NATO like it\u2019s a protection racket.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the leadup to the summit, White House aides sought to soften Trump\u2019s past criticism of member nations as deadbeats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White House officials noted that before Trump took office only four NATO members had reached the 2% benchmark that was set in 2014. Now there are nine countries that have reached the threshold, according to the White House. Eighteen of the 29 members of the alliance are projected to meet the 2% threshold by 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump isn\u2019t the first U.S. president to attend a NATO summit with impeachment looming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June 1974, Nixon faced criticism when he headed to Brussels as NATO commemorated its 25th anniversary. He met with fellow alliance leaders and tried to convey a message that he remained fully in power even as the Watergate investigation gained steam. By summer\u2019s end, Nixon resigned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In contrast, Trump heads to NATO confident that there aren\u2019t the votes needed in the Republican-controlled Senate to convict him should the House vote to impeach him. Even so, he still might not be able to resist throwing attention back to the impeachment inquiry in Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile Nixon remained determined to rise above the swirl of impeachment and pretend he wasn\u2019t distracted, Trump can\u2019t help himself,\u201d said Derek Chollet, executive vice president for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. \u201cMoreover, for Trump, being in charge hardly means projecting steady confidence \u2013 it means proving that he can keep everyone off-balance and nervous about what\u2019s coming next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Kevin Freking and Darlene Superville in Washington and Bill Barrow in Emmetsburg, Iowa, contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crying foul over timing, President Donald Trump on Monday accused Democrats of scheduling this week\u2019s impeachment 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