Lie August 16, 2018 · Remarks · Trade

“Our farmers have been hurt for 15 and 20 years. They've been -- a lot of bad things were happening. And I talk about soybeans, where, prior to my election -- if you go five years back, soybean prices were cut by 50 percent.”

Said
August 16, 2018
Where
Remarks
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
21 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 4664)

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