Lie November 15, 2017 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We are massively increasing our military budget to historic levels.”

Said
November 15, 2017
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
250 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1649)

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