Lie February 15, 2019 · Speech · Immigration

“And then you have the lottery. It's a horror show, because when countries put people into the lottery, they're not putting you in; they're putting some very bad people in the lottery. It's common sense. If I ran a country, and if I have a lottery system of people going to the United States, I'm not going to put in my stars; I'm going to put in people I don't want.”

Said
February 15, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
63 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8855)

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