Lie October 13, 2020 · Interview · Trade

“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.”

Said
October 13, 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 25729)

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  1. 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…
  2. 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.”
  3. Oct 14, 2020 · Interview“Maybe the biggest thing of all, frankly, was I got $28 billion from China because Iowa and other farm areas were, as you know, uh, they were targeted by China. And so I put tariffs on China.”
  4. Oct 15, 2020 · Interview“We've taken billions and billions of dollars over the last couple years from China. I gave $28 billion to the farmers because they were targeted by China. Put a lot of money into the Treasury.”
  5. Oct 11, 2020 · Rally“We've been charging massive tariffs to China, hundreds of billions of dollars.”
  6. Oct 11, 2020 · Rally“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.”