Lie August 13, 2019 · Speech · Trade

“U.S. Steel and all of them, all of them -- they're expanding all over the place. New mills. New expansions. We hadn't have -- we didn't have a new mill built in 30 years, and now we have many of them going up.”

Said
August 13, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
40 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 12292)

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