Lie August 1, 2018 · Remarks · Other

“One of the big things we've done is the Johnson Amendment. You know, you're free to do what you want to do now. You couldn't -- you couldn't talk because you were afraid of a lot of bad repercussion. And we -- as you know, we've taken that off. That's a bad -- that was a bad thing. That was a bad thing that Lyndon Johnson did a long time ago. He had to have a lot of power to get it done, but you now are free to say what you want. … So I think getting rid of that is a big, big factor. And at some point in the not-too-distant future, we're going to put it through Congress. In addition to just an executive order, we're going to put it through Congress.”

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August 1, 2018
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Remarks
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Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
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