Lie March 3, 2017 · Speech · Foreign policy

“Our Navy's fleet is the smallest it has been since World War I, and that’s a long time ago.”

Said
March 3, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
4 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0217)

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