Lie January 24, 2019 · Remarks · Immigration

“And I know our drug rates -- our drug -- what's happening is the drugs are pouring in. And, yes, they come through the ports of entry, but the big trucks come through areas where you don't have a wall and you have wide-open spaces. We have to have the wall. You'd stop drugs...That's not like hiding drugs in the engine or in the hubcaps, and they have incredible, ingenious ideas.”

Said
January 24, 2019
Where
Remarks
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 8386)

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