National Security
FACT CHECK:
Trump's Claims on
NATO Spending
July 11, 20185:43 PM
ET
Heard on All Things
Considered
A U.S. Navy petty
officer stands watch ahead of a ceremony inaugurating the U.S. anti-missile
station Aegis Ashore Romania at Deveselu, Romania, in 2016.
The station is part
of NATO's anti-missile shield for Europe.
Daniel
Mihailescu/AFP/Getty Images
President Trump has
been making plenty of claims about how much the U.S. contributes to NATO
while portraying
other members of the alliance as deadbeats.
Here is some of what
he has said and how those statements stand up to the facts.
was approved by
Congress,
where both the House
and the Senate overwhelmingly approved resolutions this week backing NATO.
David Welna
National Security
Correspondent, Washington Desk
Bottom line today
still is that Putin’s puppet
is so full of Дерьмо;
there is no room for toilet
paper!