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Trump released a statement full of recycled false claims about NATO as Zelenskyy finished an emotional speech to CongressFormer President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement full of false claims about NATO while praising himself for bolstering the alliance. The statement came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was wrapping up an emotional address to Congress in which he called on the US government to take stronger action to counter Russia's devastating war in Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly gotten basic facts of NATO wrong or been willfully lying about the alliance he's said was "obsolete" only to later correct himself because he did not know "much about NATO." Most of Trump's new statement repeated previous false claims he's made about the NATO alliance, including that several member countries were "delinquent" and that he was the one who got them to "pay up" in exchange for the US's protection.
"Nobody knew things would happen so rapidly, but NATO was poor and now it is rich, and all of the Fake News commentators that said Trump was tearing down NATO should be ashamed of themselves for telling lies," Trump's statement said.
He went on to say that unlike previous US presidents, "I acted, and acted strongly. I said to them, 'if you don't pay up, no protection.' They all paid up, and paid up quickly."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-released-a-statement-full-of-recycled-false-claims-about-nato-as-zelenskyy-finished-an-emotional-speech-to-congress/ar-AAV8HSc
More BS from Needy Amin.
Wingus Dingus
(8,049 posts)lame54
(35,130 posts)Second only to Fuggedaboutit in mob speak
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Would have sold Ukraine to Putin if he had the chance.
Grasswire2
(13,564 posts)Blue Owl
(49,902 posts)Cha
(295,899 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Putin is nakinh this more horrific than in any way needed. He seems to admire Stalin and Ivan the Terrible.
So why is anyone giving two shits about what Trump is saying.
onecaliberal
(32,471 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)Torchlight
(3,232 posts)While on the campaign trail in 2016, Trump made clear that he saw NATO as a relic of the Cold War. "You know, we're dealing with NATO from the days of the Soviet Union, which no longer exists. We need to either transition into terror or we need something else." (2016)
Trump has falsely accused member states of owing money to Washington, saying: "Germany owes vast sums of money to NATO, and the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany." The problem is NATO doesn't work like that. No money is owed to the alliance for defense or otherwise.
Days before his inauguration, Trump caught NATO members off guard when he claimed the alliance was "obsolete" and threatened to withdraw support. "I said a long time ago that NATO had problems: Number one, it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago."
During a 2018 rally in Montana, Trump hit out at European allies, saying: "They want (us) to protect against Russia, and yet they pay billions of dollars to Russia, and we're the schmucks paying for the whole thing." Trump was referring to Russia as Europe's primary source for oil and natural gas, but he created a false dichotomy between energy reliance and NATO's defense spending goal.
A 2016 campaign rally I said heres the problem with NATO: its obsolete. Big statement to make when you dont know that much about it, but I learn quickly.
Aviation Pro
(12,051 posts)You worthless sack of motherfucker.
FloridaBlues
(3,991 posts)Make it happen again . Delusional narcissist.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,536 posts)No matter how much attention he craves, the bottom line is that he has no real power except over the hangers on in his base, his obsequious spawn or the frightened congressmen who jump when he says "Jump!"
On the world stage he's a joke who keeps reminding us of all the ways he is the Worst President Ever.