Lie December 15, 2017 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“You know, we just approved -- our enemy is in trouble -- we just approved $700 billion, which is the largest ever approved. We got it done. And we're giving you new equipment. We're giving you new everything. Because we got depleted over the last eight years.”

Said
December 15, 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 1821)

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