President Donald Trump "didn't have to look at the specific figures" to claim the United States has a trade deficit with Canada.
That's according to White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who said Thursday that Trump "was accurate" when he made the claim to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Trump spoke about trade during a fundraising speech in St. Louis on Wednesday, according to audio obtained by The Washington Post. The paper reports that Trump said Trudeau told him there was no trade deficit. Trump said he replied, "'Wrong, Justin, you do.' I didn't even know. … I just said, 'You're wrong.'"
The Office of the United States Trade Representative says the U.S. has a trade surplus with Canada.
Sanders says the figures don't include timber and energy.