Lie January 9, 2018 · Remarks · Immigration

“The countries come in and they put names in a hopper and they're not giving you their best names, common sense means they're not giving you the best names, they giving you people that they don't want and then we take them out of the lottery. And when they do it by hand when they put the hand in a bowl like probably what's in their hand are the worst of the worst but they put people in that they don't want into a lottery and the United States takes those people.”

Said
January 9, 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 1999)

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