{"id":1980743,"date":"2023-07-23T12:21:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-europe-is-down-about-100-billion-in-ukraine-support-compared-to-us\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T12:21:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T16:21:44","slug":"trump-says-europe-is-down-about-100-billion-in-ukraine-support-compared-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-europe-is-down-about-100-billion-in-ukraine-support-compared-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump claims Europe&#8217;s Ukraine support falls short by approximately $100 billion compared to the US."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-says-europe-is-down-about-100-billion-in-ukraine-support-compared-to-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980743&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former\u2064 President \u200dDonald Trump Calls for Increased European Support for Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>During an interview\u200c on Fox News&#8217;s Sunday Morning Futures, former President Donald Trump emphasized the need for Europe to \u2062step up\u200c its support for Ukraine in its ongoing conflict with Russia. Trump claimed\u2062 that European countries are currently &#8220;$100 billion short&#8221; in their assistance.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Maria Bartiromo if he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-europe-is-down-about-100-billion-in-ukraine-support-compared-to-us\/\" title=\"Trump claims Europe's Ukraine support falls short by approximately 0 billion compared to the US.\">continue sending money<\/a> from American taxpayers to Ukraine,\u2064 Trump responded, &#8220;I&#8217;d get the war \u2063settled.&#8221; \u2062He pointed out \u2063that Europe is\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/read-this-book-to-counter-the-hopeless-lies-of-1619-project-racial-determinists\/\" title=\"Read This Book To Counter The Hopeless Lies Of \u20181619 Project\u2019 Racial Determinists\">contributing significantly<\/a> less compared to \u2063the\u2062 United States, despite being <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/would-north-korea-ever-turn-its-nuclear-missiles-on-china\/\" title=\"Would North Korea Ever Turn Its Nuclear Missiles on China?\">geographically closer<\/a> to the conflict.\u200d Trump questioned why the US has\u2064 provided $150 billion in aid\u2064 while Europe has only given $20 billion, considering that their economies are similar\u200d in size.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has \u2062repeatedly expressed his confidence in swiftly resolving the conflict between Russia and Ukraine,\u200d even claiming that it could be done \u2063in less than a day. In a previous interview with\u200c Bartiromo, he outlined his approach to ending the war within 24 hours. &#8220;I would \u2062tell Zelensky: No more. You got to make a deal. \u200cI would tell Putin: If you \u2064don&#8217;t make a deal, we&#8217;re going to give them a lot. We&#8217;re going\u2062 to give them more \u2064than they ever got if\u2062 we have to,&#8221; Trump stated on July 16.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Committee \u200dfor a Responsible Federal Budget, the US\u200d has provided over $113 billion in \u200caid to Ukraine since Russia&#8217;s invasion more than a year ago. While other countries have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/just-like-the-good-old-days-joe-biden-invades-syria-with-convoy-of-us-troops-and-choppers-on-first-full-day-as-president\/\" title=\"Just Like the Good Old Days: Joe Biden Invades Syria with Convoy of US Troops and Choppers on First Full Day as President\">offered support<\/a>, the majority of assistance has\u2064 come from the\u200d US. European institutions \u200cand countries \u200dhave committed a combined 54.9 billion euros in aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Trump drew \u200ba parallel between his call for increased European support and\u200d his actions \u2064as president in 2019 when he reduced funding to NATO&#8217;s budget. He has previously criticized NATO\u2063 allies for not meeting the 2% NATO defense spending target. &#8220;They\u2062 weren&#8217;t paying, and I made them pay \u200band took in hundreds\u2063 of billions \u200dof \u2063dollars,&#8221; Trump explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump urged Europe to match the United States&#8217; support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, citing a shortfall of around $100 billion. During an interview on Fox News, Maria Bartiromo questioned Trump about the possibility of halting financial aid from American taxpayers to Ukraine. GOP senators are actively involved in this matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}