Lie February 7, 2020 · Speech · Foreign policy

“But they've spent almost $8 trillion now in the Middle East.”

Said
February 7, 2020
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17246)

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