Matt Gaetz suggested Monday that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization offer membership to Russia—the country it describes as “the most significant and direct threat to allies’ security.”

Gaetz, hours after President Donald Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European allies to work toward a peace deal, said on his OANN show that Trump would in turn “need to get everything he wants out of Putin regarding the end of hostilities, economic cooperation, and territorial disputes.”

The former Florida congressman and short-lived attorney general nominee acknowledged that the idea may sound bizarre, but cited discussions on the subject in Washington nearly 30 years ago to say there is some basis for it.

“In 1997, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing

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