Lie May 8, 2017 · Interview · Foreign policy

“You know we’ve gotten billions of dollars more in NATO than that we’re getting. All because of me.”

Said
May 8, 2017
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
137 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0524)

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