Lie January 9, 2020 · Speech · Trade

“And I think that would've caused tremendous consternation. And they were hit for $12 billion, and I took $12 billion out of the tariffs. We had tens of billions of dollars left over; I gave it to the farmers. The next year it was $16 billion.”

Said
January 9, 2020
Where
Speech
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 16115)

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