Lie October 2, 2018 · Rally · Other

“He [Richard Blumenthal] actually gave up the race. You'd thought he lost. You remember that? He, sort of, gave -- he stopped campaigning. It was over. And then he won by three points. And we have him in the Senate. And now he's this great honorable guy, because you know why? The fake news doesn't ever want to put that stuff on. They don't want to talk about it. They don't ever want to put it on. They're a bunch of fakers.”

Said
October 2, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Other
Repeated
19 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5801)

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