Lie November 27, 2018 · Interview · Foreign policy

“We have an ally [in Saudi Arabia] that’s investing billions and billions of dollars in our country. They could very easily invest $110 billion, $450 billion overall over a period of time, fairly short period of time. $110 billion in military.”

Said
November 27, 2018
Where
Interview
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 7307)

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