Lie March 20, 2019 · Speech · Foreign policy

“And the other thing is we're in a war in the Middle East that McCain pushed so hard. He was calling Bush -- President Bush -- all the time. ‘Get into the Middle East. Get into the Middle East.’ So now we're into that war for $7 trillion. Thousands and thousands of our people have been killed, millions of people overall.”

Said
March 20, 2019
Where
Speech
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 9363)

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