Lie October 27, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We don't want to keep soldiers between Syria and Turkey for the next 200 years. They've been fighting for hundreds of years.”

Said
October 27, 2019
Where
Speech
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 14695)

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