Lie September 4, 2020 · Rally · Foreign policy

“We invested $2.5 trillion in the U.S. Military and launched the first new branch of the U.S. Armed Forces that's the first in 75 years, it's called The Space Force.”

Said
September 4, 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 23484)

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