Lie July 7, 2020 · Interview · Foreign policy

“As far as the bounty is concerned I think it's a hoax, I think it's a Democrat hoax, because good people in intelligence said that they did not think it rose to the level of bringing it to the president. Nobody brought it to me. But they said, 'It didn't rise to that level.' And that's okay with me.”

Said
July 7, 2020
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
7 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 20678)

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