Lie September 16, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“Iran has got a lot of problems right now that two and a half years ago -- and even a little bit more than that -- when I came in -- it's hard to believe it's almost three years -- but two and half to three years ago, they were causing a lot of trouble. And we'll see what happens. But we'll let you know definitively if there were -- as you know, there are ways to see definitively where they came from, and we have all of those ways. And that's being checked out right now.”

Said
September 16, 2019
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Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
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76 times in the Post’s database
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Washington Post claims database (claim ID 13621)

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