Lie October 13, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“When I came to office, weeks before I was given rundowns of what's happening, and Iran was just a question of when will they take over the entire Middle East? They're not thinking about that anymore, folks. They're not thinking about it anymore. They've got a little disaster going. They have riots in the street. Their currency is shot. And they'll be coming to us some day, probably not too far out, and they'll say we'd like to make a deal. And that's fine. That's good.”

Said
October 13, 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 5919)

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