Lie October 16, 2019 · Press conference · Trade

“We've collected tens of billions of dollars of tariffs. We've given some to the farmers, to make them even.”

Said
October 16, 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 14018)

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  1. Oct 16, 2019 · Remarks“We have a lot of money coming into the United States for the first time ever. Tremendous amounts of money in many different forms, including tariffs.”
  2. Oct 17, 2019 · Rally“We've taken in tens of billions of dollars of tariffs and China's eating the cost because they devalued their currency and they put money out, tens of billions of dollars.”
  3. Oct 17, 2019 · Rally“We lose [money on trade] with everybody but that's all changing now. But we lose $500 billion, not million, $500 million's a lot, right?”
  4. Oct 21, 2019 · Interview“Don't forget China's paying us tens of billions of dollars in tariffs, and it's had a huge impact on China.”
  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 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.”