Lie November 23, 2017 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“We’re at $700 billion for the military. And, you know, they were cutting back for years. They just kept cutting, cutting, cutting the military. And you got lean, to put it nicely. It was depleted, was the word. And now it’s changing.”

Said
November 23, 2017
Where
Remarks
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 1654)

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