Lie January 6, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“When I was elected President two years ago, ISIS was all over Syria and all over Iraq. We've wiped out ISIS in Iraq. We've wiped out ISIS.”

Said
January 6, 2019
Where
Remarks
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 8085)

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