Lie June 9, 2017 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We've spent as of a few months ago $6 trillion in the Middle East. Think of it, $6 trillion in the Middle East.”

Said
June 9, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 0637)

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