Lie September 8, 2020 · Rally · Foreign policy

“We invested $2.5 trillion in the United States military all made in the USA, by the way.”

Said
September 8, 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 23682)

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