Lie March 14, 2018 · Leaked call · Foreign policy

“Our military's stronger now, and we just got 700 billion dollars. We have to build it because it's totally depleted. We don't have our military, we're not going to be here.”

Said
March 14, 2018
Where
Leaked transcript
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
250 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 2803)

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