Lie September 18, 2018 · Interview · Foreign policy

“We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East.”

Said
September 18, 2018
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5067)

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