Lie June 25, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“We have $7 trillion invested in the Middle East.”

Said
June 25, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3586)

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