Lie August 26, 2019 · Press conference · Trade

“The tariffs have hit them [China] very hard. In a fairly short period of time, the United States will have collected over $100 billion in tariffs. … The prices [for U.S. consumers] have not gone up. Or if they've gone up, it's been very little, because they want to keep people working.”

Said
August 26, 2019
Where
News conference
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 13268)

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