Lie August 1, 2019 · Remarks · Trade

“China, for the last 20 years, has been taking hundreds of billions of dollars out of our country.”

Said
August 1, 2019
Where
Remarks
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 11576)

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  2. Aug 1, 2019 · Rally“China devalues their currency, they pour money into their system, they pour it in, and because they do that, you're not paying for those tariffs, China's paying for those tariffs.”
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  5. Aug 3, 2019 · Social post“Things are going along very well with China. They are paying us Tens of Billions of Dollars, made possible by their monetary devaluations and pumping in massive amounts of cash to keep their system going. So far our…
  6. Jul 30, 2019 · Interview“We're tariffing [China], we're taking in many, many billions of dollars.”