Lie January 5, 2020 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“With Syria, I pulled out because I'm not going to guard his border. Why should I be guarding the border? They've got troops, let em guard, that border's been under siege, for thousands of years they've been fighting on that border.”

Said
January 5, 2020
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
25 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 16806)

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