Lie July 19, 2019 · Remarks · Trade

“I've taken some of the billions of dollars of tariffs that we collect from China. We collect billions and billions of dollars of fees and tariffs, and I gave it to our farmers.”

Said
July 19, 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 12128)

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