Man, I wish I lived in the world of Stephen Kings stories. At least there, even though you have killer cars that can come to life, doorways to alternate dimensions, girls that can move things with their minds and set fires with a thought, the people of America would at least not vote for a guy who used a boy as a human shield.
I cant say the same about our country. Trump's approval rating might actually go up if he ducked behind a 5 year old boy in the face of a would be assassin.
Yikes, I didn't know some of this. Trump consciously removed the page on Article V from his NATO speech without anyone's knowledge. Key guys like McMaster and Mattis were reported to have been blindsided by the move. It was still part of the speech as late as that morning.
Trump reportedly disappointed and surprised his own top staff when he did not reaffirm the Article 5 provision during his speech - a measure that was supported by national security adviser H.R. McMaster, Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The officials reportedly thought that language was included in the speech ahead of its delivery, only realizing a change had been made when Trump spoke.
"They had the right speech and it was cleared through McMaster," a source briefed by National Security Council officials told Politico in the immediate aftermath of the NATO meeting. "As late as that same morning, it was the right one."