Lie December 5, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“And over the last couple years, I had them increase by $130 billion. And then, over the next couple of years -- and this was done largely over these last two days, but also set up time before that -- they had to now contribute $400 billion more. So it's a total of $530 billion other countries will be putting into NATO.”

Said
December 5, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
15 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 15011)

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