2018-08-22T01:12:55-04:00

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President Trump told supporters at a rally in West Virginia Tuesday that he threatened to leave NATO during a July summit if members of the transatlantic alliance didn't meet their financial commitments. "Yes, I will leave if you don't pay your bills," the president told the crowd. "You could see those checkbooks came out for billions of dollars," he added. NATO members had agreed in 2014 to increase their defense spending to two percent of their GDP by 2024.

President Trump told supporters at a rally in West Virginia Tuesday that he threatened to leave NATO during a July summit if members of the… read more