Lie July 23, 2019 · Speech · Trade

“The fact that our former Presidents did nothing about the fact that China was making hundreds of billions of dollars a year. And I guess they didn't see it.”

Said
July 23, 2019
Where
Speech
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 11552)

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