Lie October 31, 2020 · Rally · Trade

“[I] was throwing tariffs on them, they were paying us billion dollars. I gave $28 billion to farmers because they were targeted by China.”

Said
October 31, 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 29665)

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  1. Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“[China will] pay us tens of billions of dollars a year.”
  2. Oct 31, 2020 · Rally“It was a beautiful thing, and we took some of that money, $28 billion we took, and we gave it to our farmers, because they were targeted by China and our farmers like me.”
  3. Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“We've taken in billions and billions of dollars. And by, you know, you have farmers, a lot of farmers. 28 billion dollars from China went to farmers because they were targeted.”
  4. Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“We've taken in [from China] tens of billions of dollars a year.”
  5. Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“I got China to give the farmers $28 billion, because China targeted the farmers.”
  6. Nov 1, 2020 · Rally“I got $28 billion from China that went to our farmers because they targeted you....And we had a lot of money leftover because we tariffed China a lot of money and they paid for it. You didn't pay.”