Lie February 16, 2019 · Social post · Trade

“Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!”

Said
February 16, 2019
Where
Twitter (Twitter)
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 8810)

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  1. 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.”
  2. Feb 15, 2019 · Speech“We're having many billions of dollars pouring into our Treasury. We've never had that before with China.”
  3. Feb 18, 2019 · Speech“In the meantime, billions and billions of dollars are coming into our Treasury. It's very simple.”
  4. Feb 19, 2019 · Remarks“We're taking in a lot of money coming into our Treasury from tariffs and various things, including the steel dumping.”
  5. Feb 12, 2019 · Remarks“The tariffs [on China] are bringing a tremendous amount of money to our Treasury.”
  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.”