Martin Schram: A week of Valentines and courtship

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Finally, Monday, Trump posted about it (sort of) on social media.
41% : Indeed, on Feb. 10, at a Conway, South Carolina, rally, Trump told an apparently apocryphal tale, bragging that, as president, he made Europeans pay more to NATO.
32% : Trump said: "One of the presidents of a big country stood up (and) said: 'Well, sir, uh, if we don't pay (their share of NATO funding) and we are attacked by Russia, will you protect us?'"I said: 'You didn't pay...
28% : Richard Haass, the longtime Republican senior diplomatic and national security adviser in both Bush presidencies, quit his party under Trump.
25% : For three days Trump said nothing about Navalny's murder.
25% : "...The way Donald Trump presents himself - the unwillingness to support Ukraine. ...
24% : While Europe's leaders and experts blamed Putin for murdering Navalny, Trump, who loves to praise Putin, stayed silent in America for three days.
23% : Also a federal case in Florida, where Trump is being prosecuted for not just retaining highly secret government documents, but allegedly hiding them from federal agents.
23% : World leaders and experts were stunned - assuming Trump signaled a mindless willingness to ignore the NATO alliance's founding principle that that an attack on one NATO member will be responded to militarily by all NATO members.
18% : By Martin Schram, Tribune News Service The Tribune Content AgencyOne way or another, Valentine's Day week seemed mostly consumed with the complicated courtships of Donald Trump.

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