Lie September 18, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“We've spent seven and a half trillion dollars in the Middle East.”

Said
September 18, 2019
Where
Remarks
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 12794)

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