Lie July 26, 2018 · Speech · Foreign policy

“We were paying anywhere from 70 percent to 90 percent the cost of 29 total countries in NATO. Not anymore. Not anymore.”

Said
July 26, 2018
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
137 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3733)

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