Lie March 11, 2019 · Interview · Foreign policy

“We're taking care of everybody in the world’s military. But now as you know I got over $100 billion from NATO countries. But that’s not enough, that’s not enough, we're paying for massive portions of NATO. We shouldn't be paying for this. They should be paying their own way, and we can help them, but we shouldn't be paying for — and by the way, here’s a beauty. We pay for their military defense and then they take advantage of us on trade in addition. It used to be in order to have the trade we take care of them — but they get us both ways.”

Said
March 11, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
44 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 9285)

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