Lie January 6, 2019 · Social post · Immigration

“[The wall is] about stopping human traffickers. It's about stopping drugs. So we have to have it. Got to have it. But we have no choice. It's not a question.”

Said
January 6, 2019
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
102 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8071)

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