Lie August 22, 2017 · Speech · Crime

“That wall is also going to help us, very importantly, with the drug problem, and the massive amounts of drugs that are pouring across the southern border.”

Said
August 22, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
102 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1137)

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