Lie February 24, 2018 · Interview · Immigration

“Now, you know they are not going to have their best people in the lottery, because they're not going to put their best people in a lottery. They don't want to have their good people to leave...We want people based on merit. Not based on the fact they are thrown into a bin and many of those people are not the people you want in the country, believe me.”

Said
February 24, 2018
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
63 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2394)

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