Lie January 4, 2019 · Press conference · Immigration

“In fact, what we save on the USMCA -- the new trade deal we have with Mexico and Canada -- what we save on that, just with Mexico, will pay for the wall many times over just in a period of a year, two years, and three years. So I view that as, absolutely, Mexico is paying for the wall.”

Said
January 4, 2019
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Immigration
Repeated
47 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 7993)

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