President Donald Trump made some false claims to the press while meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, including a long-debunked claim that the US has given Ukraine more than $300 billion in wartime aid.

“I guess the number is well over $300 billion,” Trump said at one point in his televised remarks. At another, he said , “Under Biden, it was just crazy what was going on. I believe the number is over $300 (billion). I think it could be $350 billion worth of equipment and money and everything else.”

Those figures aren’t close to correct, as numerous fact checks have pointed out.

According to figures from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a German think tank that tracks the aid data, the US allocated about $134 billio

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