Lie March 10, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East over a 17-year period, $7 trillion as of three months ago.”

Said
March 10, 2018
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 2557)

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