Lie February 15, 2019 · Speech · Trade

“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.”

Said
February 15, 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 8816)

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  2. Feb 16, 2019 · Social post“Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!”
  3. Feb 18, 2019 · Speech“In the meantime, billions and billions of dollars are coming into our Treasury. It's very simple.”
  4. Feb 12, 2019 · Remarks“The tariffs [on China] are bringing a tremendous amount of money to our Treasury.”
  5. 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.”
  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.”