Lie October 23, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We have spent $8 trillion on wars in the Middle East, never really wanting to win those wars.”

Said
October 23, 2019
Where
Speech
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 14354)

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