Lie August 5, 2020 · Interview · Coronavirus

“We're up to 276 miles of wall now. Thank goodness we have it, because Mexico is heavily infected, and we'd have a surge.”

Said
August 5, 2020
Where
Interview
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 22774)

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