Lie July 13, 2018 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“The United States was paying, you know, anywhere from 70 to 90. And I choose 90, depending on the way you want to calculate. We were paying 90 percent of the cost of NATO. And NATO is really there for Europe, much more so than us. It helps Europe whether -- no matter what our military people or your military people say, it helps Europe more than it helps us.”

Said
July 13, 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 4214)

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