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Angus King: “I think clearly [Trump's] pounding the table on the 2% issue…”

Featuring: Angus King, Independent | U.S. Senate Maine

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A Conversation With Senator Angus King

Published | Video Starts at 33:35

Those are my two questions. Yeah, let me take the second one first. Yes, I think maybe accolade is too strong a word, but I think clearly [Trump's] pounding the table on the 2% issue had an effect and it's continuing. And the Biden administration has done the same thing. So yeah, I think he sort of, you know, he pointed out something and, and all these countries had committed to that eight or 10 years ago. (33:35–33:43)

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Asserts that Trump's emphasis on NATO countries meeting the 2% GDP defense spending target had an impact.

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