Claim: Says Benito Mussolini "initiated a campaign to 'drenare la palude'  by firing more than 35,000 civil servants."
Fact-check: Comparing Mussolini, Trump on use of 'drain the swamp'
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Louis Jacobson
Date published: 2018-05-09T00:00:00