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Martin Pengelly in Washington

Trump told European leaders that US ‘will never come to help you’

A man and a woman sit in front of a World Economic Forum sign and a US flag.
Donald Trump with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on 21 January 2020. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Donald Trump told the president of the European Commission in 2020 that the US would “never come help” if Europe was attacked and also said “Nato is dead”, a senior European commissioner said.

Multiple news outlets said the exchange between Trump and Ursula von der Leyen at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020 was described in Brussels on Tuesday by Thierry Breton, a French European commissioner responsible for the internal market, with responsibilities including defence.

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