Lie April 18, 2020 · Press conference · Trade

“We're getting tens of billions of dollars in tariffs [from China]. … We didn't pay. China paid.”

Said
April 18, 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 19498)

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