Lie October 10, 2019 · Rally · Trade

“Hundreds of billions of dollars a year was taken from our country to build China. Not China's fault.”

Said
October 10, 2019
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
185 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 13882)

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