Lie October 6, 2019 · Social post · Trade

“.@60Minutes 'forgot' to report that we are helping the great farmers of the USA to the tune of 28 Billion Dollars, for the last two years, paid for out of Tariffs paid to the United States by China for targeting the farmer. They devalued their currency, therefore paying the cost!”

Said
October 6, 2019
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
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 13072)

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  1. Oct 7, 2019 · Remarks“We've taken in tremendous amounts of money in the form of tariffs from China.”
  2. Oct 7, 2019 · Remarks“China has eaten the cost of those tariffs because they've devalued their currency and they've also pumped a lot of money into their system. ”
  3. Oct 7, 2019 · Remarks“But, in the meantime, we're taking in billions and billions of dollars of tariffs every month and we've never had this.”
  4. Oct 9, 2019 · Remarks“I'm very happy right now. We're taking in billions of dollars of tariffs. And despite what the news was saying, there's no inflation. There's not a very big price increase, if any, because they've eaten the tariffs.”
  5. Oct 10, 2019 · Rally“Hundreds of billions of dollars a year was taken from our country to build China. Not China's fault.”
  6. Oct 16, 2019 · Press conference“We've collected tens of billions of dollars of tariffs. We've given some to the farmers, to make them even.”