Lie October 16, 2018 · Interview · Foreign policy

“And [the Europeans are] starting to pay us for that, by the way, much more substantially than they ever paid before.”

Said
October 16, 2018
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
137 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 5962)

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