The United States is treated very unfairly by NATO.

I want to tell you that.

And when you think about it, nobody can dispute it.

We give so much and we get so little in return.

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A full and comprehensive fact check of everything Donald Trump said today in Davos, Switzerland

would almost certainly end with.

We now join the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell already in progress.

But that particular comment from Donald Trump that the United States gets so little in return from NATO cannot be allowed to go unchallenged and uncorrected.

For all the reasons that statement is combative and humiliating and just plain wrong, one springs to mind immediately again and again for the record.

Our NATO allies responded at the drop of a hat when the United States

invoked Article 5 in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on 9-11. That includes Denmark. Now,

the target of Donald Trump's smears and aggression from the Atlantic, quote, Denmark is small with

the population of just 6 million, but it has tried to uphold

its end of the bargain. It lost more soldiers per capita than the United States did in Afghanistan.

In all, there were 43 deaths, a sacrifice that Danes accepted as the cost of their international

obligations. Some of Donald Trump's rhetoric has suggested that the next time Article 5 is invoked,

the United States might be the aggressor. The one saving grace today in Switzerland, Donald

Trump suggested he would not use military force to acquire Greenland, even if you believe him,

to even consider the idea of asking the men and women of the American military to train their

weapons on allies is beyond the pale. It is no wonder those six lawmakers with backgrounds

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