“ALL EQUIPMENT should be demanded to be immediately returned to the United States, and that includes every penny of the $85 billion dollars in cost.”
Donald Trump
Former president. in a statement. Claim dated 30 Aug 2021.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
The number is the total spent on the Afghan military; equipment was just a small part of that.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former president) made this claim around 30 August 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 August 2021, 1 day later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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