Fact Check Posts – Page 6

Donald Trump
stated on March 8, 2018 remarks before a Cabinet meeting

American aluminum and steel "are vital to our national security. ... They are the bedrock of our defense industrial base."

By Louis Jacobson • March 9, 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

Laurence Tribe
stated on March 2, 2018 a tweet

President Donald "Trump’s latest set of sanctions against companies and countries benefiting North Korea includes every nation but one making shipments to (North Korea). The one nation Trump exempted from his punitive ban was . . . wait for it . . . drumroll: Russia."

By Louis Jacobson • March 6, 2018

Stuart Varney
stated on March 2, 2018 an interview on "Fox and Friends"

"Electrolux, Sweden's largest appliance maker, has just abandoned a $250 million investment in the United States because of the steel tariffs. That is retaliation."

By Jon Greenberg • March 5, 2018

Donald Trump
stated on January 16, 2018 a speech at a women's event in Washington

"Chrysler is leaving Mexico and moving back to Michigan."

By Jon Greenberg • January 18, 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

Pat Robertson
stated on July 12, 2017 an interview with President Donald Trump

Russian natural gas company "Gazprom held Europe by the throat -- they were a monopoly, and now the U.S. is breaking into that monopoly with our exports of (liquefied natural gas)."

By Louis Jacobson • July 17, 2017

Hagar Chemali
stated on July 6, 2017 an interview on MSNBC

"Cuba is far more sanctioned than North Korea."

By Louis Jacobson • July 7, 2017

Starbucks
stated on May 4, 2017 a Senate hearing

"Coffee is the second-most traded commodity after oil."

By Jon Greenberg • May 8, 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

Jeff Flake
stated on April 27, 2017 a tweet

"Before NAFTA, trade between the US and Mexico was around $50 billion. Now it stands at more than $500 billion."

By Miriam Valverde • April 28, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on April 26, 2017 a tweet

"The U.S. recorded its slowest economic growth in five years (2016). GDP up only 1.6%. Trade deficits hurt the economy very badly."

By Louis Jacobson • April 27, 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

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

Donald Trump
stated on February 28, 2017 a speech to Congress

"Currently, when we ship products out of America, many other countries make us pay very high tariffs and taxes — but when foreign companies ship their products into America, we charge them nothing or almost nothing."

By Allison Graves • March 2, 2017

Paul Ryan
stated on January 25, 2017 an interview

In the United States, "we tax our exports and don't tax our imports."

February 9, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 20, 2017 his inaugural address

"We've made other countries rich while the wealth ... of our country has dissipated over the horizon."

By Jon Greenberg • January 20, 2017

Donald Trump
stated on January 3, 2017 a tweet

"General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border."

By Miriam Valverde • January 4, 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

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