Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on March 23, 2018 in a news conference

"Last year we lost $500 billion on trade with China."

By John Kruzel • March 28, 2018

Angus King
stated on March 4, 2018 in an interview

"China, my understanding is, supplies 4 percent of the steel in the U.S."

By John Kruzel • March 8, 2018

One Wisconsin Now
stated on July 28, 2017 a blog post

Says Scott Walker "wants state taxpayers to dole out up to $250 million annually in incentives" to Foxconn "to lure a manufacturing plant to Wisconsin that he claims will generate $181 million in tax revenue."

August 2, 2017

Scott Walker
stated on July 26, 2017 a tweet

"Foxconn is bringing 13,000 high-tech jobs to Wisconsin."

July 27, 2017

Reince Priebus
stated on July 9, 2017 an interview

"It's an absolute fact" that China and North Korea "have consistently over many, many years" meddled in U.S. elections.

July 13, 2017

Rex Tillerson
stated on April 28, 2017 comments to the UN Security Council

"China account(s) for 90 percent of North Korean trade."

By John Kruzel • May 1, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 17, 2017 an interview with Fox News

With North Korea, "nobody has ever seen such a positive response on our behalf from China."

By Jon Greenberg • April 19, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 18, 2017 a speech

"We’ve lost 70,000 factories since China joined the World Trade Organization."

April 19, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on March 20, 2017 remarks at a Kentucky rally

"Since China joined — that’s another beauty — the WTO in 2001, the U.S. has lost many more than 60,000 factories."

By Lauren Carroll • March 24, 2017

Colorado Citizens for Accountable Government
stated on October 14, 2016 a mailer

"When Rachel Zenzinger was on the Arvada City Council, she voted to spend taxpayer funds for a junket to China."

By Alan Gathright • October 20, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on September 26, 2016 a presidential debate

"I did not — I did not — I do not say that. I do not say that" climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.

By Lauren Carroll • September 27, 2016

Celia Israel
stated on August 23, 2016 a press conference by Austin Democrats

Says Donald Trump’s "Make America Great Again" caps are "made in China."

By W. Gardner Selby • August 24, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on August 1, 2016 a rally in Columbus, Ohio

Russia and China are "doing naval exercises together someplace."

By Nadia Pflaum • August 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on July 25, 2016 an interview before a speech in Winston-Salem, NC

Says he and Bernie Sanders have "very similar" views on trade

By Will Doran • July 27, 2016

Thomas Perez
stated on June 18, 2016 an interview.

"Go look at a Trump product. They’re all made in China."

By Sean Gorman • June 27, 2016

Randy Forbes
stated on April 21, 2016 a radio interview.

China is "going to have twice the number of submarines we have in just over a decade."

By Sean Gorman • May 2, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2016 an interview with the New York Times

China is "in the South China Sea and (building) a military fortress the likes of which perhaps the world has not seen."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 27, 2016 an interview with the New York Times

"We’ve rebuilt China."

By Linda Qiu • April 4, 2016

Ted Strickland
stated on March 17, 2016 campaign ad, "Beltway Rob"

"It was (Rob Portman’s) job to stop China’s illegal dumping of steel. He failed, looked the other way, did nothing."

By Nadia Pflaum • April 1, 2016

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2016 an interview with the New York Times

"There’s a tremendous tax that we pay when we (American businesses) go into China, whereas when China sells to us there’s no tax."

By Jon Greenberg • March 30, 2016

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