Lie June 5, 2020 · Press conference · Trade

“We took in tens of billions of dollars [from China] in tariffs that they paid for...I gave some of that money just a small fraction to our farmers which made them whole, more than whole. That is why they are all in business, made them more than whole and it came right out of the terror of money and the reason we didn't pay is because China devalued their currency paid plus they also put additional money to it because if they didn't do that nobody would have bought their product.”

Said
June 5, 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 20297)

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