Lie March 5, 2020 · Interview · Trade

“China is paying us billions and billions of dollars because of what I did to them with tariffs. Billions of dollars -- I mean, to a point where my farmers are in love with me because I took some of that money, gave it to them.”

Said
March 5, 2020
Where
Interview
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 18012)

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  6. Feb 19, 2020 · Speech“We were taking in tens of billions of dollars in tariffs.”