Lie August 7, 2019 · Remarks · Crime

“So Rod Blagojevich -- I am thinking very seriously about commuting his sentence so that he can go home to his family after seven years. You have drug dealers that get not even 30 days, and they've killed 25 people.”

Said
August 7, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
6 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 12609)

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