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Donald Trump: “Now they're putting up five, and they're all paying it.”

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And they are putting up not 2% but 5%, they said 5% of GDP. That's a lot of money. They'll have trillions of dollars put up. They were putting up two, but they weren't paying it. Now they're putting up five, and they're all paying it. And they all said the same thing. They said one year ago your country was dead. We never thought it was coming back. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. (08:24–08:27)

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Asserts that NATO countries are now paying 5% of GDP for defense.

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