Intelligence and law-enforcement officials among America's allies in Europe and the Middle East told Insider they were aghast at the heavy-handed tactics used by Trump and US police forces against George Floyd protesters.

"It has been chilling watching the United States devolve into the same strongman-style policing and rhetoric we have been opposing together as allies in the Middle East and Eastern Europe," a NATO military intelligence official told Insider.

They fear that the US president is not an ally of European democracy, sources told us.
"The Germans are openly done with this president," a law-enforcement official said.