Spicer: Trump is ‘fully committed’ to NATO’s collective defense

Published May 25, 2017 7:00pm ET



President Trump is “fully committed” to NATO’s collective defense, even though the president didn’t explicitly pledge to support it during his speech at NATO headquarters, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday.

The NATO treaty’s Article 5 states that an attack against one country is considered an attack on all in the alliance.

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