Biden, Trump fears loom over NATO summit, Europe's defense

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : Trump got them to invest more.
61% : "This is an election where the Europeans are paying very close attention," said Rose Gottemoeller, who was deputy secretary general of NATO when Trump was president.
57% : I want Europe to pay," Trump said in an April interview with Time Magazine.
55% : Stoltenberg has been in the role for the past 10 years and got along well with Trump.
52% : "They experienced Trump," he said.
52% : Stoltenberg, who as NATO secretary general worked with Trump for all four years of his term, told reporters during a June roundtable in Washington that multiple U.S. presidents have fairly pushed European countries to spend more money on defense.
44% : "Trump repeated several of his previous complaints in a social media post on Tuesday afternoon as the leaders of allied nations arrived in the U.S."If it weren't for me as President, there probably would be no NATO by now," he said on his social media platform, Truth Social, in a post that claimed European countries "owe" the United States billions for assistance to Ukraine.
31% : "John Herbst, who served as ambassador to Ukraine under George W. Bush, also said that despite the concerns, "a fair number of them realize that when Trump was president, his statements were not actually reflective of his administration's policy.
19% : And yet, when Trump debated Biden in June, he doubled down on his position.

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