Lie August 15, 2019 · Rally · Trade

“We're taking in billions of dollars in tariffs and again, China's devaluing their currency. They're pouring out money. The prices haven't gone up, so that means we're taking in billions of dollars.”

Said
August 15, 2019
Where
Campaign rally
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 12389)

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  1. Aug 15, 2019 · Remarks“The tariffs, we've taken in close to $60 billion in tariff money. And the consumer has not paid for them. Now, at some point, they may have to pay something. But they understand that.”
  2. Aug 15, 2019 · Remarks“The tariffs have really bitten into China. They haven't bitten into us at all -- except for the reporters that want to make it look that way, but they don't understand what's happening.”
  3. Aug 14, 2019 · Social post““So far, you've had Tariffs imposed on 300 Billion Dollars worth of Chinese products, but you can't tell me that it has hurt our economy...& it really hasn't led to any kind of serious rise in prices at the consumer…
  4. Aug 14, 2019 · Social post“Tremendous amounts of money pouring into the United States. People want safety!”
  5. Aug 13, 2019 · Remarks“We're doing this for Christmas season, just in case some of the tariffs would have an impact on U.S. customers, which, so far, they've had virtually none. The only impact has been that we've collected almost $60…
  6. Aug 13, 2019 · Speech“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.”