Lie March 18, 2020 · Remarks · Trade

“Look, China is paying us billions and billions of dollars in tariffs, and there's no reason to do that.”

Said
March 18, 2020
Where
Remarks
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 18508)

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  1. Mar 26, 2020 · Press conference“[China is] paying us a lot of money in tariffs and other things...Look, now we're taking in billions of dollars. And we gave some to our farmers because China, you know, they targeted our farmers.”
  2. Mar 30, 2020 · Interview“Now they're paying us billions of dollars [referring to China]. I tariff them. Nobody thought that was even doable. They're paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.”
  3. Mar 31, 2020 · Press conference“They keep talking about tariff payments. And we haven't done that. China is paying us -- we made a deal with China. Under the deal, they're paying us 25 percent on $250 billion, and they pay it.”
  4. Mar 5, 2020 · Interview“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…
  5. Apr 3, 2020 · Press conference“Tariffs are a way of evening the score. Tariffs are a way of just neutralizing. They have tariffs on us. And we now can put tariffs on them.”
  6. Feb 25, 2020 · Press conference“We're taking in billions and billions of dollars' worth of tariffs [from China] that we can now use for phase two.”