Lie January 30, 2019 · Interview · Trade

“You know, billions of dollars are being poured into our treasury. Billions. We never had five cents come into our treasury.”

Said
January 30, 2019
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Trade
Repeated
248 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 8418)

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  2. Feb 5, 2019 · Speech“Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion dollars of Chinese goods — and now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars.”
  3. Jan 24, 2019 · Remarks“Because we can't lose almost $800 billion on trade, like has been done for many years.”
  4. Jan 23, 2019 · Remarks“They're paying billions of dollars to the United States Treasury. First time we've ever done that. First time we've ever had money coming the other way from China. It's always been a one-way street.”
  5. Jan 19, 2019 · Remarks“There were some false reports about sanctions [tariffs] being removed, we have taken in tremendous amounts of money into the United States because of the sanctions.”
  6. Feb 11, 2019 · Rally“Those tariffs are costing them a lot of money and they're going into our Treasury, remember that, we're filling up with billions of dollars.”