Lie May 29, 2018 · Rally · Immigration

“Think of it, a lottery. You pick people. Now, let me ask you. So these countries that are sending people in -- do you think they are sending us their finest? Do you think they are sending us -- so we got the lottery. So they put names, and we pick the names, and they come in, and then we wonder why we have problems.”

Said
May 29, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
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 3265)

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