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According to European Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, in 2020, while still president, Donald Trump told European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that the US would never help Europe if it was attacked and would leave NATO. reported Reuters.
“You have to understand that if Europe is attacked, we will never come to your aid and support,” Trump said, according to Breton, at a meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2020, which the EU commissioner was also in attendance.
By the way, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization “is dead and we’re going to leave it, we’re going to leave NATO,” Trump also said, according to Breton. “And by the way, you owe me $400 billion because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you should have paid for defense,” Trump added.
Trump is the front-runner for the Republican nomination in the November 2024 election, which polls say is shaping up to be a hotly contested race with incumbent Democrat Joe Biden.
Reuters notes that Trump’s campaign headquarters did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(BTA)
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