Lie September 4, 2020 · Press conference · Crime

“[Democrats] want to release a lot of inmates, some of them for very serious reasons. They want to release them from jail.”

Said
September 4, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
7 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 23531)

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