Lie February 12, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“South Korea -- we defend them and lose a tremendous amount of money. Billions of dollars a year defending them. And working with Secretary Pompeo and John Bolton, they agreed to pay, yesterday, $500 million more toward their defense. Five hundred million, with a couple of phone calls. I said, ‘Why didn't you do this before?’ They said, ‘Nobody asked.’ … But South Korea is costing us $5 billion a year. And they pay -- they were paying about $500 million for $5 billion worth of protection. And we have to do better than that. So they've agreed to pay $500 million more.”

Said
February 12, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
14 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8787)

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