Lie August 10, 2017 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“We've as of this moment spent over $6 trillion in the Middle East. As far as I'm concerned, when I say 'spent,' we've wasted $6 trillion in the Middle East, and yet we can't fix our roads and our bridges and our schools and our airports.”

Said
August 10, 2017
Where
News conference
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 1020)

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