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Donald Trump: “The United States was paying almost everything, and now…”

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Published | Video Starts at 11:41

And the relationship is very good. The NATO countries, I mean, with us is the strongest it's ever been. We used to complain that they're paying 2%, but they're not paying. The United States was paying almost everything, and now they're paying 5% and they paid. And that's trillions of dollars. You know, we're talking about trillions of dollars, and they're spending that, giving that money to us, and we are giving them great defensive, you know, the Patriots and all of the different Javelins, all the different missile systems and everything else that they want. (11:41–11:49)

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Asserts that NATO countries' increased spending to 5% of GDP amounts to trillions of dollars.

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