Trump says if elected he would not protect NATO deadbeats

NATO partners who don't fulfil their financial obligations would not get protection from Russia if Donald Trump were to re-take the White House in November, statements from Trump showed. Trump, campaigning in South Carolina ahead of the GOP primary on February 24, said he had told NATO members that they needed to pay up. “I said, ‘Everybody’s gonna pay.’ They said, ‘Well, if we don’t pay, are you still going to protect us?’ I said, ‘Absolutely not.’ They couldn’t believe the answer.” And, he said, he would "encourge them (Russia) to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay." Trump claimed...