Feb 9, 2017 ... President Trump on Thursday doubled down on his comments the U.S. should  have taken oil from the Middle East during its wars there. “We've spent $6 trillion  … in the Middle East,” Trump said during a meeting with airline executives at the  White House. “We've got nothing. We've got nothing. We never ...
Mar 1, 2017 ... Trump said the U.S. has spent $6 trillion in the Middle East and “with this $6  trillion we could have rebuilt our country.” The amount ... And the president  repeated claims we've fact-checked before on border security, welfare, job  creation since he was elected, health insurance and crime. For instance, he said  ...
Feb 28, 2017 ... “We've spent trillions of dollars overseas, while our infrastructure at home has so  badly crumbled.” THE FACT CHECKER: Trump often incorrectly claims that the  United States spent $6 trillion on the wars in the Middle East (while including  Afghanistan) but here he plays it safe. The wars in Iraq (in the Middle ...
Feb 27, 2017 ... And now we never win a war. We never win. And we don't fight to win. We don't  fight to win. So we either got to win, or don't fight it at all. But where we are -- 17  years -- almost 17 years of fighting in the Middle East. I saw a chart the other day  -- as of about a month ago, $6 trillion we've spent in the Middle ...
Feb 27, 2017 ... “And we're nowhere,” Trump continued. “Actually if you think about it, we're less  than nowhere. The Middle East is far worse than it was 16, 17 years ago, there's  not even a contest. So we've spent $6 trillion. We have a hornet's nest. It's a mess  like you've never seen before. We're nowhere, so we're going ...
We’ve spent $6 trillion on the wars in the Middle East.