Lie October 24, 2018 · Rally · Foreign policy

“South Korea's very wealthy. They make your Samsung, your LG, they make your ships, they make everything -- they're making a fortune because of us. We have 32,000 soldiers over there that they don't pay for.”

Said
October 24, 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 6020)

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