Lie October 11, 2020 · Rally · Trade

“China's paid us billions of dollars of taxes that frankly I gave to our farmers and others and gave the rest of it into the U.S. Treasury.”

Said
October 11, 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 25519)

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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.”
  3. 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.”
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  6. Oct 14, 2020 · Rally“They would take in our wealth and I gave you [farmers] $28 billion [from tariffs on Chinese goods]. Say, thank you very much, President Xi. It came right out of China and because of that, everybody's happy in Iowa.”