Lie February 5, 2019 · Speech · Trade

“Therefore, we recently imposed tariffs on $250 billion dollars of Chinese goods — and now our Treasury is receiving billions of dollars.”

Said
February 5, 2019
Where
Speech
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 8629)

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  2. 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.”
  3. Jan 30, 2019 · Interview“You know, billions of dollars are being poured into our treasury. Billions. We never had five cents come into our treasury.”
  4. Feb 12, 2019 · Remarks“The tariffs [on China] are bringing a tremendous amount of money to our Treasury.”
  5. Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We've been losing, on average, $375 billion a year with China. A lot of people think it's $506 billion. Some people think it's much more than that.”
  6. Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We're having many billions of dollars pouring into our Treasury. We've never had that before with China.”