Lie August 2, 2020 · Rally · Trade

“We enacted tariffs of tens of billions of dollars on China and a lot of that money was distributed to our farmers and a lot of our manufacturers.”

Said
August 2, 2020
Where
Campaign rally
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 21226)

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  1. Aug 3, 2020 · Interview“With the tariffs and everything else I did, we would taking in billions of dollars.”
  2. Aug 4, 2020 · Remarks“The farmers are very happy. They've gotten billions and billions of dollars, compliments of China. They were targeted by China and I got them every penny: $28 billion from China. And they're doing well.”
  3. Aug 6, 2020 · Interview“China is just dying to have sleepy Joe back in there because they paid tens of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes that they never paid before.”
  4. Aug 7, 2020 · Press conference“I've taken billions -- tens of billions of dollars from China.”
  5. Aug 10, 2020 · Remarks“We did a phase one [trade] deal [with China] and it was a wonderful deal. And all of a sudden it means very little in the overall import of things. They should have never allowed what happened to the world [covid-19]…
  6. Aug 11, 2020 · Rally“When China targeted our farmers, we provided 28 billion dollars in relief. We got it from China with tariffs on China and they paid for it. We didn't pay for it. They paid for it.”