Biden campaign attacks Trump's comments threatening NATO in new ad

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are continuing to attack former President Donald Trump for saying he would «encourage» Russia to «do whatever the hell they want» to NATO member countries that are «delinquent» in defense spending.

The Biden-Harris campaign released a new ad title «Walk Away» on Friday highlighting Trump's comments they call «traitorous,» hours after the reported death of Alexei Navalny, the longtime Russian opposition politician and critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

«Trump wants to walk away from NATO. He's even given Putin and Russia the green light to attack America's allies,» the ad's narrator says, before quoting Trump at his rally last Saturday in South Carolina, saying, «I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want.»

«No president has ever said anything like it,» the narrator ads. «It's shameful. It's weak. It's dangerous. It's un-American.»

The three-week, six-figure ad campaign will run through Super Tuesday and target voters in the battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the campaign said, places that are «home to more than 2.5 million Americans who identify as Polish, Finnish, Norwegian, Lithuanian, Latvian, or Estonian — all NATO countries that border Russia and face the threat of an expansion of Putin's aggression in Ukraine.»

Biden used similar language in blaming Navalny's death squarely on Putin in remarks at the White House on Friday, arguing Americans should «reject» what he called the «dangerous statements» from Trump.

«This is an outrageous thing for a president to say. I can't fathom — can't fathom, from Truman on, they're rolling over in their graves hearing this,» he said.

«Now is the time for even great unity among our NATO