Lie January 14, 2019 · Speech · Trade

“With China, every year, for many years, we're losing $375 billion -- not million, billion dollars....It's really more than that, but that's like the conservative number. I think it's $504 [billion]. But I'm giving you conservative because I don't want to be criticized for using wrong numbers, right? ”

Said
January 14, 2019
Where
Speech
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
188 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7830)

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