Lie April 18, 2020 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“Iran is a much different country than it was. When I first came in, Iran was going to take over the entire Middle East. Right now, they just want to survive. They're having protests every week. They're loaded up with the plague.”

Said
April 18, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
76 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 19500)

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