Lie June 23, 2018 · Rally · Trade

“Have you been seeing what's going on with our steel industry. We put steel tariffs on. U.S. Steel is now building six plants are expanding. The steel company today announced a 500-million-dollar plant, and that's first plant built in many, many years, it's a long time.”

Said
June 23, 2018
Where
Campaign rally
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
40 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 3989)

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