Lie September 4, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“[Iran is] in a much different position than they were two and half, almost three, years ago. When I came into office, they were the number one source of terror in the world. And even the money that they're giving to terror organizations is way down because they don’t have so much money. All of that -- all of those billions of dollars given by the previous administration, that money has been long spent.”

Said
September 4, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
76 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 13124)

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