Lie March 13, 2018 · Remarks · Crime

“We need [the wall]. We need it for the drugs. We need it for the gangs. We need it for lots of reasons. We have to have it. But that wall will stop so much. And we looked at the different prototypes, and it was fascinating. And we have two or three that really work. We had people trying to scale -- we've done them every way.”

Said
March 13, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
Repeated
102 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2652)

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