Lie December 3, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“They [South Korea] were paying less than $500 million a year and it costs us billions. And I said, ‘It's not fair. We do a great job. We have 32,000 soldiers there.’ … And I got $500 million more a year.”

Said
December 3, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
14 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 15802)

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