Lie January 4, 2018 · Remarks · Immigration

“The lottery system is a disaster. Tom and I talk about it all the time. They put down their probably worst people -- who knows. But they're not looking to get rid of their best people, so they put their worst people in the hopper, and we're picking out the people. And then we find out: What do we have? It's not a good situation. So we're going to end it. The lottery system has to be laughed at by countries outside of our country when they send these people in.”

Said
January 4, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
63 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 1995)

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