Lie December 26, 2018 · Press conference · Immigration

“We've already built a lot of wall. We're building a lot more, you know, just through the normal budget. And we fixed a tremendous amount of wall -- many miles....We have been building a lot of wall. A lot of people don't know it, and I haven't really been stressing it, frankly, because maybe I felt it wasn't the right thing to do. But we've been building a lot of wall. If you go out, you'll see it.”

Said
December 26, 2018
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
258 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7720)

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