Lie September 7, 2018 · Interview · Trade

“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 that's just for a period of five years and that's before we ever got here. So whether it's soybeans, or corn or any of it, I think the farmers are going to have a much bigger market.”

Said
September 7, 2018
Where
Interview
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 4995)

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