French president debunks Trump’s latest whopper about NATO allies

The following article by Eric Boehlert was posted on the ShareBlue.com website July 12, 2018:

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Trump tried to take credit for an agreement that already existed, and French president Emmanuel Macron immediately called him out for lying.

Having concocted a NATO crisis during the alliance’s annual meeting this week, Trump announced that he had magically solved a problem he himself created.

He’s lying, of course.

On Wednesday, Trump berated America’s longtime allies by insisting the U.S. has been “taken advantage of” by other members of the NATO alliance because they spend less than the U.S. does on military defense.

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