Impeachment proceedings against Trump

Brandon wrote:

FredHayek wrote: Trump...just forced NATO to get stronger.

Explain.

How did Trump force NATO to get stronger?

Fred, are you familiar with the term duckspeak? From the book 1984?

NATO had been underfunding their militaries for decades. After the NATO summit, they pledged to spend more on military spending.

That is partially true and partially a right wing talking point. NATO had underfunded spending during the period they thought Russia was moving towards a more peaceful mien. Once Russian intentions become apparent they began moving towards the two percent of budget goal. The misleading part of the statement is that NATO moved towards significantly more investment as a result of the summit (and the antics of our glorious leader.) In fact they simply reiterated that they would continue moving towards the 2% goal. www.factcheck.org/2018/07/trumps-false-claims-at-nato/

One must also understand that NATO is an alliance meant to stop Russian expansion. For the president to insult our NATO allies, question the purpose of the alliance, and then show himself to be Putin's puppet does the exact opposite of making NATO stronger.

Is he the puppet or the puppeteer?

Netanyahu Says Putin Agreed to Restrain Iran in Syria www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/world/middlee...putin-netanyahu.html

Puppet. I'm way more concerned about our own elections than Syria.

Obama, press conference, October 18, 2016 : "But the larger point that I want to emphasize here is that there is no serious person out there who would suggest somehow that you could even rig America’s elections, in part because they’re so decentralized and the numbers of votes involved. There’s no evidence that that has happened in the past, or that there are instances in which that will happen this time. And so I’d advise Mr. Trump to stop whining and go try to make his case to get votes."

The above quote seems to be about rigging an election, not meddling in it. There's a very obvious difference between the two.

Pray tell what is the obvious difference. Is it that rigging is a much more serious charge than meddling?