Lie August 17, 2020 · Rally · Coronavirus

“Lucky we have the wall, we're up to 300 miles almost. If we didn't have that wall, we would be inundated with people and unfortunately, and we're helping them, we sent them a lot of ventilators and other equipment, but Mexico is being overrun with the pandemic and we would really have a problem.”

Said
August 17, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
17 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 22458)

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