Lie November 12, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We had a military that was so depleted, so bad. The planes were so old; many of them didn't fly. I could tell you stories about ammunition. They didn't have ammunition. We had a real problem.”

Said
November 12, 2019
Where
Speech
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 15703)

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