Lie December 26, 2018 · Speech · Foreign policy

“The other reason I'm here today is to personally thank you and every service member throughout this region for the near elimination of the ISIS territorial caliphate in Iraq and in Syria. Two years ago, when I became President, they were a very dominant group. They were very dominant.”

Said
December 26, 2018
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
189 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7725)

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