Lie June 17, 2020 · Interview · Foreign policy

“He [John Bolton] wanted to go to war with everybody. He never saw a war he didn't like. He made a tremendous mistake. You know, he and the people that he was pushing, when he went into the Middle East, when he went into Iraq. That was a terrible mistake....I never thought it was the right thing to do. And I’ve been proven right.”

Said
June 17, 2020
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
27 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 19925)

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