Lie June 11, 2020 · Interview · Foreign policy

“I've rebuilt our military. I spent two and a half trillion dollars. Nobody else did.”

Said
June 11, 2020
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
117 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 20193)

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