Lie November 13, 2019 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“[The situation in Syria is] a complicated situation. It's been going on for hundreds of years.”

Said
November 13, 2019
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
25 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 14489)

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