Trump Slams NATO for Not Joining the Iran War: ‘We’ve Invested Trillions … to Protect European Countries’

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TRUMP: "And frankly, if it weren’t held In Turkey, where my friend happens to be, a very strong leader, a very strong person, it’s possible that I wouldn’t have attended. I felt I had to attend because of the fact that, you know, I know he has gone all out. It's a big thing to have NATO come to Turkey or any place else, it’s a big thing. But we weren’t treated well because we did something in Iran. We don’t need anybody’s help. I didn’t even want their help. But before I asked, they said they wouldn’t be there. And we’ve invested trillions of dollars In NATO. Why? To protect European countries and Others, Canada, etc., but to protect people, countries, from — generally speaking, it used to be the Soviet Union, now it’s Russia, and I say that’s fine, but you would think that they’s be very willing to do something to help us, and they really weren’t. And in the case of the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister, I guess he is no longer there, maybe because of this. It was a very unpopular thing he did. He said, 'No, we’ll help after the war is over.' I said, 'I don’t need that kind of help.' We didn't need any help at all. And in a way, I was testing people. I was testing to see whether or not they’d be there because I've long said that we helped them, but I’m not sure if they would be there for us. Italy turned us down, and Germany turned us down, and France turned us down. And it’s okay. But, you know, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars and they're not there for us? We've always been there for them."