Trump conjures up a phony dispute with Ron DeSantis over China tariffs Barnstorming the country, former president Donald Trump, the GOP presidential front-runner, has been regularly attacking his chief rival, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, for supposedly opposing the tariffs that Trump imposed on China during his presidency. In Trump's telling, DeSantis — whom he often calls "DeSanctimonius" or simply "DeSanctis" — vehemently opposed Trump's tariffs and the relief for farmers who suffered when China significantly cut its purchases of U.S. agricultural products. "'DeSanctis' opposed my China tariffs — the ones where I gave you $28 billion, by the way," Trump said on July 7 in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "That was just a small portion of what we took in — we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China. … Very simply, 'DeSanctis' sided with the communists in China. I sided with the farmers of America." Trump even suggests that DeSantis actively sought to block Trump's actions against China. "Ron DeSantis totally opposed it but we overrode his opposition," Trump claims. Well, we studied the evidence presented by the Trump campaign to justify his statements and ended up giving the former president Four Pinocchios. Click the link to find out why. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. The book on Trump DeSantis is just the latest in a series of foes who have found themselves facing Trump's patented attack strategy — exaggerate, with fervor and repetition, a claim that has little basis in fact. Regular readers may recall we documented that Trump made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims during his presidency. We even wrote a book about it — "Donald Trump and His Assault on Truth." It was published by Scribners in 2020, but interested readers can still find it on Amazon. To explore our Trump claims database, please click here. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP and @AdriUsero) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down to read fact checks on GOP presidential hopefuls | 
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