Lie March 2, 2019 · Remarks · Foreign policy

“We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East and we can't land a plane with the lights on 20 years later.”

Said
March 2, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Foreign policy
Repeated
78 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 9121)

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