Capehart: Europe Isn’t Ripping Us Off on Defense, Just Not Fairly Sharing the Burden

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart stated that it’s incorrect to claim that Europe is ripping off the United States on defense by not spending enough on their defense because they’re not “paying the United States money in a protection racket.” It’s just people want them to “spend more of your GDP on your own defense, rise up to the level of where the United States is, relatively speaking” so that “the burden is more fairly shared.”

New York Times columnist David Brooks stated that Europe has increased its defense spending.

Capehart then stated, “I just want to jump in on something David was saying about defense expenditures, the way Donald Trump talks about it, he says, these

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