Lie December 31, 2018 · Interview · Foreign policy

“ISIS was all over the place when I took over. It was a total mess in Syria. We've almost eradicated all of them. We think all of them will be gone by the time we get out, but we're heading back and we're also fighting.”

Said
December 31, 2018
Where
Interview
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 7848)

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