Lie June 25, 2020 · Interview · Trade

“We're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of tariffs. And we're not paying for them; China is paying for them, because they devalue their currency.”

Said
June 25, 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 20482)

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