Lie October 12, 2019 · Interview · Foreign policy

“When I came in, we had no ammunition two and a half years ago. … The general told me, ‘Sir, I’m sorry, we have no ammunition.’ And no president should ever be in that position.”

Said
October 12, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
49 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 13895)

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