Lie June 20, 2019 · Interview · Immigration

“[Responding to a question about incomplete record-keeping during Trump’s family separations.] Many of those records were Obama records, and they had separation and they had the exact same thing during the Obama years.”

Said
June 20, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
25 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 11848)

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