Lie August 24, 2020 · Rally · Foreign policy

“We've invested more than $2.5 trillion in our great military. Our military now is in better shape than it's ever been. We've upgraded the jets. We had old jet fighters, old everything. Everything was old and tired and depleted and it's all been changed. That's all been changed.”

Said
August 24, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
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 22003)

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