EU Hits Back On Trump’s Lie They Formed To “Screw” US: We Formed To “Maintain Peace, Respect, Trade”

France 24 reports:

The European Union on Thursday pushed back hard against allegations by US President Donald Trump that the 27-nation bloc was out to get the United States, and warned that it would vigorously fight any wholesale tariff of 25 percent on all EU products.

Thursday’s EU pushback came after Trump told reporters that “the European Union was formed in order to screw the United States. That’s the purpose of it, and they’ve done a good job of it,” adding that it would stop immediately under his presidency.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk [photo] of Poland, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, went on a counteroffensive.

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