Lie August 24, 2018 · Speech · Trade

“Did you see where soybeans now is slightly higher than when I started -- you know, everybody was saying, oh, that's the end -- soybeans are going up. Even I said how did that happen? That's like a great -- how good is that? But our farmers -- if you look at soybean prices, go five years before our great election in '16, go five years before, go five years back, soy beans went down by 50 percent on election night. They were down by 50 percent from what they were five years before.”

Said
August 24, 2018
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
9 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 4436)

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