He said, I've never seen, he's the head of NATO. He said, I've never seen. For years, we were paying almost, almost all of NATO. We were being ripped off by European nations both on trade and on NATO. I got them to pay up by saying one of the statements you made before, if you don't pay, we're not going to protect you. Otherwise, we would have never gotten it. (1:10:04–1:10:10)
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Asserts that European nations were exploiting the U.S. in trade and NATO contributions.
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