Former United States President Donald Trump told the crowd at a rally in Iowa on Wednesday that the money that NATO has, is the money he raised.
"I got them hundreds of billions of dollars because they were not paid ... We were protecting all of these European countries and for years and years they weren't paying or they were paying not a good amount of money," he noted.
He concluded by saying that NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg "has been great" and that Stoltenberg expressed gratitude towards him for the help he gave at that time.