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Trump released a statement full of recycled false claims about NATO as Zelenskyy finished an emotional speech to Congress
Former President Donald Trump.
Former President Donald Trump.Evan Vucci/AP
  • On Wednesday, the former president released a statement repeating his false claims.

  • Volodymyr Zelenskyy was giving an emotional address to Congress.

  • NATO is delinquent and member countries need to pay up, according to Trump.

Donald Trump praised himself for bolstering the alliance while releasing a lengthy statement full of false claims. As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was wrapping up an emotional address to Congress in which he called on the US government to take stronger action against Russia, the statement came.

Several member countries of the NATO alliance were delinquent and that he was the one who got them to pay up, were some of the false claims made by Trump in his new statement.

NATO was poor and now it is rich, and all of the Fake News commentators that said Trump was tearing down NATO should be ashamed of themselves.

He said that he acted and acted strongly. I told them that if they didn't pay up, they wouldn't have protection.

Trump has gotten basic facts wrong about NATO and later corrected himself because he didn't know much about the alliance.

European members of NATO and Canada increased their defense spending before Trump took office. NATO countries don't pay up, they have pledged to spend a certain amount of their gross domestic product on their own militaries, and pay a small stipend to NATO headquarters.

NATO members agreed to spend 2% of their GDP on their own defense by the year 2024, two years before Trump came into office.

The claim that members of the alliance were delinquent in their contributions doesn't add up because countries decide on their own how much of their GDP to spend on their own defense. They don't owe NATO or the US money according to fact-checkers.

The accounts of what countries pay and owe are not kept in a ledger, according to a former Obama administration National Security Council staffer.

NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg gave Trump credit for pushing NATO countries to spend more, noting that Canada and European allies added $130 billion to their defense budgets.

Trump is committed to NATO, he told Fox News at the time. He stated that NATO allies need to invest more. At the summit in July last year, we agreed to do more to step up, and now we see the results.

The original article is on Business Insider.

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