Lie September 7, 2018 · Interview · Trade

“If you look at farms over 15 years, before I got here, 15 years, they've been going down.”

Said
September 7, 2018
Where
Interview
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 4979)

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  1. Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“Well, you have to remember [farmers have] been worried for 15 years. For 15 years they haven't been doing well and for 15 years, they've really been hurt by the trade practices of other countries.”
  2. Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“Well, it's not bad for them, because if you look at, as an example soybeans, they dropped 50 percent five years before my election, they came down 50 percent, and now they're about the same as, what I was talking…
  3. Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“If you look at soybeans and I tell this often, five years before my election, it cut in half, okay?So five years -- before the election, before that great day in November, two years ago, soybeans went down like this.…
  4. Sep 7, 2018 · Remarks“I was with US Steel, they're, opening up eight plants.”
  5. Sep 7, 2018 · Remarks“But U.S. Steel is opening up eight plants, Nucor and others are opening up plants. Some of them are spending close to $1 billion on a brand new plant. ”
  6. Sep 7, 2018 · Interview“And remember this: before my election, if you look at soybeans, five years before my election they dropped 5 -- or down -- each year, they were dropping down 10 and 15 percent. They ended up dropping 50 percent, and…