Lie July 30, 2019 · Interview · Foreign policy

“But I disagreed very strongly on having gone into the Middle East. We're in there now for more than $7 trillion, thousands of lives, millions of lives, you have to count both sides, because I actually count both sides, millions of lives.”

Said
July 30, 2019
Where
Interview
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 11368)

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