Lie October 8, 2020 · Interview · Trade

“I was taking in billions of dollars, I took in $28 billion, I gave the money to the farmers.”

Said
October 8, 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 25201)

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  2. Oct 10, 2020 · Remarks“We've been charging China a lot of money too, with the tariffs. A lot of money. Billions and billions of dollars.”
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  5. Oct 13, 2020 · Interview“What I did with China is incredible. I took in tens of billions of dollars. I gave 28 billion dollars to the farmers because they were targeted.”
  6. Oct 13, 2020 · Rally“I took the toughest-ever action to confront China's rampant theft of American jobs, you know that. We charge them so much. We gave a lot of the money to our farmers, $28 billion to our farmers because our farmers were…