Lie September 18, 2020 · Press conference · Foreign policy

“I said, ‘Look, they've been fighting on their border [Syria and Turkey] for 200 years and a lot longer than that, under different names, and they can continue to do that.’”

Said
September 18, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
25 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 24488)

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