What did Donald Trump claim about foreign policy on 28 Feb 2019?
Donald Trump, President of the United States ·
We've picked up over a hundred billion dollars just in NATO over the last 2 years. A hundred billion dollars more has come in.
Not $100 billion. NATO said European Allies and Canada had spent an extra $41 billion since 2016, and expected the figure to reach $100 billion only by 2020.
Five weeks earlier NATO reported that since 2016 European Allies and Canada had spent an extra 41 billion dollars in real terms, and that the figure was expected to reach 100 billion dollars by 2020 (NATO, 'NATO Secretary General in Davos: the transatlantic Alliance is strong', Jan. 24, 2019).
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- News conference at the JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi, after his second summit with Kim Jong Un.
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