Lie March 13, 2019 · Remarks · Crime

“I think much of the drugs -- the big loads of drugs, and certainly the human traffickers, go not through the ports of entry; they go through the open areas where they don't have walls.”

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March 13, 2019
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Remarks
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Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Crime
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102 times in the Post’s database
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