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Thursday, July 12, 2018
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, July 12, 2018
Trump says US commitment to NATO remains strong
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleUS President Donald Trump says the US commitment to NATO “remains very strong” despite reports that he threatened to pull out in a dispute over defense spending.
Trump says at a news conference in Brussels that he told “people” that he would be “very unhappy” if they didn’t increase their commitments.
Trump says the US has been paying “probably 90 percent of the costs of NATO.”
Trump adds that he was “extremely unhappy with what was happening and they have substantially upped their commitment.”
NATO had no immediate comment.
He says: “I believe in NATO.”
Trump once declared NATO “obsolete.”
— AP
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