Lie December 9, 2019 · Remarks · Crime

“We got that done -- criminal justice reform. They could have never done it without me. It was done by us. It wasn't done by anybody else. They came to me. They've been trying to get it for many years. President Obama wouldn't do it or couldn't get it done.”

Said
December 9, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
56 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 15839)

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