Fact Check Posts – Page 20

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 in a White House briefing

Says as president he has “total” authority to re-open states amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Amy Sherman • April 14, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 13, 2020 a tweet

"It is the decision of the President," not governors, to "open up the states."

By Amy Sherman • April 13, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 a press briefing

With voting by mail, “you get thousands and thousands of people sitting in somebody's living room, signing ballots all over the place.”

By Louis Jacobson • April 9, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 a news conference

Wisconsin is “run by Democrats right now,” so they should address election social distancing concerns.

By Eric Litke • April 9, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 7, 2020 a news conference

“As soon as I endorsed (Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly), the Wisconsin Democrats said, let’s move the election to two months later.”

By Eric Litke • April 8, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 6, 2020 a White House briefing

The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”

By Amy Sherman • April 8, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 1, 2020 in a White House briefing

“Now, they’re doing tests on airlines — very strong tests — for getting on, getting off. They’re doing tests on trains — getting on, getting off.”

By Amy Sherman • April 6, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 4, 2020 a Coronavirus Task Force press briefing

Says fired inspector general Michael Atkinson brought a “terrible, inaccurate whistleblower report” to Congress.

By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 30, 2020 an interview on "Fox and Friends"

“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

By Jon Greenberg • March 31, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 29, 2020 a press conference

“I didn’t say that” some of the medical equipment that governors are requesting, they don't actually need.

By Louis Jacobson • March 30, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 a Hannity show interview

Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 Fox News town hall

"We've done more tests in eight days than South Korea has done in eight weeks."

By Shefali Luthra • March 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 a Fox News town hall

Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”

By Miriam Valverde • March 25, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 24, 2020 a campaign ad

Says Nancy Pelosi’s coronavirus bill includes “tax credits for solar and wind energy … retirement plans for community newspaper employees … $300 million for PBS … climate change studies” and more.

By Louis Jacobson • March 24, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 14, 2020 a news conference

Says that “over a 45-minute period that we had the press conference” on the coronavirus on March 13, 2020, the stock market set "an all-time record."

By Tom Kertscher • March 19, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 18, 2020 comments made during a White House media briefing

The coronavirus "snuck up on us,” adding that it is “a very unforeseen thing.”

By Shefali Luthra • March 19, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 a White House news conference

“I've always known this is a real, this is a pandemic. I've felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 a White House press conference

The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 a tweet

Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!"

By Miriam Valverde • March 15, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 a tweet

“During the 2009 swine flu outbreak, Biden made reckless comments unsupported by science & the experts. The Obama Admin had to clean up his mess & apologize for his ineptitude.”

By Samantha Putterman • March 13, 2020

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