US presidential candidate Donald Trump on Monday claimed that he “made NATO strong” during his presidency after his invitation to Russia to attack member countries of the defence alliance that do not meet financial commitments caused outrage. “I made NATO strong,” the Republican frontrunner for the 2024 US presidential election wrote in all caps on the social network Truth Social, which he co-founded. “When I told the 20 Countries that weren’t paying their fair share that they had to pay up, and said without doing that you will not have U.S. Military Protection, the money came rolling in,” Tru…