Lie October 9, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“So we like South Korea. We've got 32,000 soldiers over there. Thank you very much, United States. They don't pay. They don't pay us, but that's OK. They're very successful.”

Said
October 9, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
14 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5371)

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