Lie May 4, 2018 · Speech · Immigration

“We are going to have truly strong-and we're going to take people into our country, but they're going to come in based on merit, not based on picking somebody out of a bin.”

Said
May 4, 2018
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
63 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3057)

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