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Canadian MP Charlie Angus's Powerful Message to Trump at NATO Summit
20 Feb 2025
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas speaks with Canada’s Member of Parliament Charlie Angus who doesn’t hold back on calling out Trump. Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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I'm joined by Charlie Angus, member of the Canadian Parliament, who is part of a delegation right now in Brussels as part of the NATO parliamentary meetings, which came after the disastrous Munich conference for the United States and, frankly, for all of Europe, where J.D. Vance attacked the European democracies, where you had Pete Hegseth in Europe saying horrible things about Ukraine and Europe.
So, Charlie, what's going on there? What's your message right now to the United States?
I think we've witnessed the most extraordinary week in European politics since the fall of the Berlin Wall. But that was a good story. What we've seen over the last week, beginning with the disaster in Munich with JD Vance, total attack on European democracy, and then followed up here at our NATO meetings with all of America's key allies,
that they flushed 75 years of diplomacy, hard work, commitment to the rule of law and international diplomacy. They just flushed it down the toilet while Trump And Vance and the mega morons here took the time to kneel down and kiss the feet of Vladimir Putin. Things will not go back to what they were. And Europe now is very much cast adrift from the United States.
And certainly Canada is looking to where our place in the world is. And we're looking more to Europe now than to our closest neighbor.
Tell us what's going on behind the scenes. It still seems like, at least publicly, while we are seeing a lot of European leaders speak up against Trump and what happened, they're still trying to be diplomatic. But you're there right now in the inner circles. What's really happening, Charlie?
What really surprised me from the get-go, I think the European leaders were shocked by what Vance had done in Munich because it was a real threat to democracy. It was a promotion of far-right extremism. And people in Europe have deep memories of what it means to suffer far-right extremism. So on the surface, there was this attempt
to hope that the Americans were just bluffing and Trump was just being Trump. But it became really clear as the meetings went on. I was certainly very vocal in pushing for a clear position. And I think that that aided many of the allies started coming up to me. So Latvia, the Baltic states who are on Putin's front line are feeling right now that they're being sold down the river. We're seeing...
In Germany, the fears of the far right, we're seeing advances, interference in the Romanian election system. People understand that this is now a threat to their way of life.
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