Lie September 5, 2018 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“If you look at Iran, the first day that I got to office -- or let's look at it differently -- a day before I got to office, everybody was saying Iran would be taking over the Middle East. It was just a question of when. Now they're just looking to survive.”

Said
September 5, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
76 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 4957)

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