Lie July 18, 2020 · Rally · Trade

“I stood up to China and all of the historic tariffs that I've put on have had a tremendous impact. We've taken in hundreds of billions, we've taken in tens of billions of dollars.”

Said
July 18, 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 21444)

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