Lie July 30, 2019 · Interview · Trade

“We cannot let China do what they've done to us over the last 25 years. They've taken hundreds of billions of dollars out of our country every single year, hundreds of billions, with a B, not millions, billions.”

Said
July 30, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
185 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 11388)

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