Lie October 14, 2020 · Rally · Trade

“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.”

Said
October 14, 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 26079)

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