Lie June 12, 2018 · Press conference · Trade

“We have a big trade deficit with Canada, I was reading, where, oh, it's actually a surplus. Not a surplus. It's either 17, but it could actually be 100. You know, they put out a document. I don't know if you saw it. They didn't want me to see it, but we found it. Perhaps they were trying to show the power they have. It's close to $100 billion a year loss with Canada.”

Said
June 12, 2018
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
185 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3349)

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