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- Trump put out a statement repeating his false claims about NATO on Wednesday.
- He released the statement as Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy was wrapping an emotional address to Congress.
- Trump has repeatedly and wrongly claimed that NATO is "delinquent" and member countries need to "pay up."
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Former President Donald Trump released a lengthy statement full of false claims about NATO while praising himself for bolstering the alliance. The statement came 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 to counter Russia's devastating war in Ukraine.
Trump has repeatedly gotten basic facts of NATO wrong or been willfully lying about the alliance he's said was "obsolete" only to later correct himself because he did not know "much about NATO." Most of Trump's new statement repeated previous false claims he's made about the NATO alliance, including that several...
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