Lie September 20, 2020 · Rally · Foreign policy

“The whole Middle East, going into the Middle East was a disaster. We should have never been there. We're at $8 trillion and thousands of lives and millions of lives.”

Said
September 20, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 24691)

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