Fact Check Posts – Page 2

Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2020 a tweet

Says the USMCA is the “biggest trade deal ever made.”

By Samantha Putterman • February 6, 2020

John Delaney
stated on August 27, 2019 an interview

The Amazon rainforest fires are "directly related to trade" tensions between the United States and China.

By John Kruzel • September 6, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on August 21, 2019 remarks at the White House

"Yesterday we had the strongest dollar in the history of our country."

By Louis Jacobson • August 22, 2019

Kamala Harris
stated on August 12, 2019 a CNN interview

It "is estimated that as many as 300,000 auto workers may be out of a job before the end of the year."

By Chris Nichols • August 21, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2019 an interview

U.S. farmers are receiving $16 billion "out of the tariffs that we’ve gotten from China."

By Eric Litke • August 2, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on July 12, 2019 a speech at Derco Aerospace

"Mexico, they took 30% of our automobile business."

By Eric Litke • July 23, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on June 4, 2019 remarks at a business roundtable in London

The United Kingdom is "our largest (trading) partner."

By Jon Greenberg • June 5, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on May 9, 2019 remarks at the White House

Tariffs are "paid for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."

By Louis Jacobson • May 14, 2019

Donald Trump
stated on January 2, 2019 a tweet

"Mexico is paying for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."

By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 2019

Chris Collins
stated on October 10, 2018 a direct mail campaign ad

"Nate McMurray lobbied to send our jobs to China. (And Korea, too.)"

By Jill Terreri Ramos • October 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on September 20, 2018 an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity

Under the North American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs."

By Louis Jacobson • September 24, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2018 rally in Tampa

"U.S. Steel just announced that they are building six new steel mills."

By Manuela Tobias • August 2, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on June 28, 2018 a speech in Mount Pleasant, Wis.

"The European Union … they send us Mercedes, they send us -- by the millions -- the BMWs -- cars by the millions."

By Louis Jacobson • July 2, 2018

Don Blankenship
stated on May 1, 2018 a debate

"Mitch McConnell was one of the few senators that voted after Tiananmen Square not to have punitive actions against China for human rights violations."

By Louis Jacobson • May 3, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2018 a private fundraising appearance

In Japan, "they take a bowling ball from 20 feet up in the air and they drop it on the hood of the car. And if the hood dents, then the car doesn't qualify...It's horrible, the way we're treated."

By Jon Greenberg • March 15, 2018

Leah Vukmir
stated on January 25, 2018 an article

Says Sen. Tammy Baldwin "claims to support a 'Buy America' philosophy, but her actions speak louder than her empty words."

By D.L. Davis • March 12, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on August 22, 2017 a rally in Phoenix

"We have become an energy exporter for the first time ever just recently."

By Louis Jacobson • August 23, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 an interview

"All pipelines that are coming into this country from now on has to be American steel."

April 20, 2017

Don Beyer
stated on November 8, 2016 an interview.

"We have trade agreements with 20 countries, and we have trade surpluses with each one of those 20."

By Warren Fiske • November 28, 2016

Hillary Clinton
stated on October 9, 2016 the second presidential debate

"We are now, for the first time ever, energy independent."

By Lauren Carroll • October 11, 2016

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