Lie October 16, 2019 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“Our nuclear has been totally updated, and, in some cases, new.”

Said
October 16, 2019
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
19 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 14011)

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