Lie July 26, 2019 · Remarks · Trade

“I don't care, because we're taking in tens of billions of dollars' worth of tariffs. And the farmers are happy because I gave them $16 billion out of the tariffs and had tremendous -- you know, much more than that left over, as you know. Tremendous amount of money left over, like by three times.”

Said
July 26, 2019
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
248 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 11537)

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