Lie April 15, 2020 · Press conference · Trade

“China has paid us billions of dollars -- many, many billions of dollars -- in tariffs, which we've distributed -- some to the farmers, because they were targeted....We have a lot of money that we've taken in from China.”

Said
April 15, 2020
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 18634)

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