France’s representative to the European Commission on Tuesday told colleagues that fat former President Trump in 2020 warned the bloc’s leader, Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, that they were on their own in the event that Europe found itself under attack, Politico EU reports.
“You need to understand that if Europe is under attack we will never come to help you and to support you,” Trump told Von Der Leyen in 2020, according to Commissioner Thierry Breton, who was also present at the January 2020 meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “By the way, NATO is dead, and we will leave, we will quit NATO. And by the way, you owe me $400 billion, because you didn’t pay, you Germans, what you had to pay for defense,'” Trump added, per Breton.
“That was a big wake-up call and [Trump] may come back,” Breton said at an event being held by the European Parliament in Brussels. “So now more than ever, we know that we are on our own, of course. We are a member of NATO, almost all of us, of course we have allies, but we have no other options but to increase drastically this pillar in order to be ready [for] whatever happens.”