Lie August 21, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“[NATO] picked up $44 billion. He told that to the press, they didn't report it. Forty-four billion... So I got them to pay $100 billion. It's gonna be much more than that, but tremendous amounts of money, tremendous. They gotta pay up, they're paying up.”

Said
August 21, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
44 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 4587)

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