Lie December 28, 2017 · Interview · Foreign policy

“We have spent, as of about a month ago, $7 trillion in the Middle East. And the Middle East is worse than it was 17 years ago. … $7 trillion.”

Said
December 28, 2017
Where
Interview
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 1947)

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