Lie November 26, 2019 · Interview · Foreign policy

“I took over this great country and our military was in horrible shape. It was totally depleted. I had a general walk in and tell me they had no ammunition. We don't have ammunition. Can you imagine? I said that no president should ever hear that again and I went to work very quickly and we brought massive amounts of ammunition to a point where we could barely store it.”

Said
November 26, 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 14776)

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