Lie March 19, 2018 · Speech · Crime

“Some of these drug dealers will kill thousands of people during their lifetime — thousands of people — and destroy many more lives than that. But they will kill thousands of people during their lifetime, and they’ll get caught and they’ll get 30 days in jail. Or they’ll go away for a year, or they’ll be fined. And yet, if you kill one person, you get the death penalty or you go to jail for life.”

Said
March 19, 2018
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
3 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2593)

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