Lie February 24, 2020 · Speech · Foreign policy

“Our military has been completely rebuilt; it is now stronger than ever before....We have spent two and a half trillion dollars on rebuilding our military.”

Said
February 24, 2020
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
117 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17483)

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