“The “U.S. trade deficit is at an all-time high under Trump in the last three years.”
What PolitiFact found
The trade deficit in goods was higher under Trump in 2018 and 2019 than during any previous year, though that was not the case in 2017. However, this ignores the substantial trade surplus in services.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 9 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 September 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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