Lie November 20, 2018 · Statement or ad · Foreign policy

“After my heavily negotiated trip to Saudi Arabia last year, the Kingdom agreed to spend and invest $450 billion in the United States.”

Said
November 20, 2018
Where
Statement
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
42 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7258)

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