The Lies About Trump Keep on Rollin' In: NATO Edition

This is a repeating pattern with respect to Trump and his furious detractors:

Trump says something dopey or imprudent...or, for that matter, something pretty ordinary.

His detractors then lie about it, converting it into something stupid/crazy/evil/etc.

   Trump did not say that he would not defend NATO per Article 5. Rather, he was semi-bullshitting about how he got them to pony up for the 2% of GDP defense spending that they'd pledged to do. What he actually said is recounted elsewhere, and I'm too lazy to look it up now.

   This repeatedly raises the question: if he's so awful, why do you have to lie about almost everything he says?

   Trump's imprudent crappery generally moves my irritation needle a few notches one way...then his detractors come along and spread nefarious lies about what he actually said, swinging the needle back even farther in the other direction.