Lie November 22, 2018 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“Nobody has done more for the military than I have. I took the budget from very little to $700 billion and then $716 billion. … I've taken spending, where you had a depleted military, and it wasn't being fixed and it was a mess, and it, frankly, put us in danger, and I was able to get Congress to give us $700 billion and now $716 billion for our military.”

Said
November 22, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
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250 times in the Post’s database
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Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7533)

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