Trump, speaking during a political rally in South Carolina and recalling a meeting with NATO leaders, asked, “Okay sir, if we don’t pay,” referring to the president of “a big country.” And we’re like ‘Russia has attacked – will you protect us?’
“I said: ‘You didn’t pay? You’re a criminal?’ He said, ‘Yes, let’s say it happened.’ No, I won’t protect you. In fact I’ll encourage them to do whatever they want. You’ll have to pay.”
“We’ve heard this before… there’s nothing new under the sun,” EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Bretonin said in an interview with France’s LCI television.
“Maybe there’s a problem with his memory, this was actually a female president, not of a country, but of the European Union,” Breton said, referring to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and her conversation with Trump in 2020. “