Lie October 14, 2019 · Social post · Foreign policy

“Brian Kilmeade over at @foxandfriends got it all wrong. We are not going into another war between people who have been fighting with each other for 200 years [referring to the Turks and Kurds]. Europe had a chance to get their ISIS prisoners, but didn’t want the cost. ‘Let the USA pay,’ they said.”

Said
October 14, 2019
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
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 15119)

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