Lie October 9, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“Look at Iran. Before I got there, Iran was going to take over the Middle East in like 12 minutes, right? Now they're trying to survive....You got riots in every city. So if you want to really just keep up what we're doing and keep this country -- we have tremendous potential.”

Said
October 9, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
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 5358)

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