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27 Dec 2018 03:56

While speaking to service members at al-Asad airbase in Iraq on Wednesday, President Trump spread two falsehoods about military pay. He asked the crowd if anyone there was "willing to give up the big pay raise you just got," and declared that service members haven't received a raise "in more than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one." Trump also claimed he spoke with "plenty of people" who told him he could make the pay raise "smaller," at "three percent," "two percent," or "f...
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