Lie April 3, 2018 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“NATO — NATO was delinquent. They were not paying their bills. They were not paying. A lot of states, as we discussed, they were not paying what they should be paying. Since I came in, many, many billions of dollars additional have been paid by countries that weren’t paying, and now they’re paying.”

Said
April 3, 2018
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
137 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2812)

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