Lie March 30, 2020 · Interview · Trade

“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.”

Said
March 30, 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 18576)

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