Lie July 14, 2018 · Interview · Foreign policy

“But, in a trade sense, they have really taken advantage of us, and many of those countries are in NATO. And they weren't paying their bills.”

Said
July 14, 2018
Where
Interview
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 3779)

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