Trump Security Strategy Meant to Guide Europe, US Official Says

Jacob HelbergPhotographer: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

The Trump administration’s recently released national security strategy was not intended as empty criticism of Europe but was designed to help steer the continent back on track, a top State Department official said.

“The president’s national security strategy was not an insult, it was a diagnosis,” Jacob Helberg, the under secretary of state for economic affairs said Tuesday in an interview on Bloomberg Television.