Fact Check Posts – Page 4

Scott Perry
stated on October 17, 2020 an interview

The coronavirus "was constructed in the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”

October 26, 2020

John James
stated on August 26, 2020 a campaign ad

Says Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., is "known for doing nothing. … (Peters) skipped 84% of small business hearings (and) skipped 89% of hearings on China."

By Louis Jacobson • August 31, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on June 4, 2020 a Facebook post

"China has been stealing our manufacturing, costing Wisconsin almost 90,000 jobs."

By Lawrence Andrea • July 2, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on June 24, 2020 an ad

“Trump lost a trade war that he started.”

By Louis Jacobson • June 30, 2020

Rand Paul
stated on May 6, 2020 an interview

$3 trillion for federal coronavirus stimulus packages is "being borrowed basically from China."

May 14, 2020

Chris Murphy
stated on May 11, 2020 an MSNBC interview

Says President Donald Trump implemented “a travel ban that just didn't work, 400,000 people got in from those countries that were subject to the restrictions.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 13, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 3, 2020 a Fox News virtual town hall

Says Joe Biden has “written a letter of apology” for calling Trump’s travel restrictions from China “xenophobic.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 a post on Facebook

“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”

By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 16, 2020 a Facebook post

“Pick up a product. Look at the barcode. If the first 3 numbers are 690 or 691 or 692, the product was made in China.”

By Madison Czopek • April 23, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 19, 2020 a Facebook post

Nigerians are “burning Chinese stores.”

April 22, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 16, 2020 a post on Facebook

“Africans living in China now being forced to sleep outside in the cold” as “Chinese nationals blame them for the rising number of new coronavirus cases in the country.”

April 16, 2020

Viral image
stated on April 2, 2020 a Facebook post

Says video shows “the Chinese are destroying the 5G poles as they are aware that it is the thing triggering the corona symptoms.”

April 7, 2020

Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 a tweet

“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on March 27, 2020 a virtual town hall on CNN

“There was no effort” to get American experts into China after it announced the coronavirus, and “we had one person in-country (and Trump) pulled him out of the country.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 31, 2020 a Facebook post

“On February 7, the WHO warned about the limited stock of PPE. That same day, the Trump administration announced it was sending 18 tons of masks, gowns and respirators to China.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020

Viral image
stated on March 25, 2020 a Facebook post

“COVID literally stands for Chinese Originated Viral Infectious Disease.”

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

John Cornyn
stated on March 18, 2020 a press conference

“China is to blame because the culture where people eat bats and snakes and dogs and things like that, these viruses are transmitted from the animal to the people and that's why China has been the source of a lot of these viruses like SARS, like MERS, the Swine Flu and now the coronavirus.”

By Madlin Mekelburg • March 26, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 12, 2020 a Facebook post

Says COVID-19 came to the United States in 2019.

March 16, 2020

YouTube videos
stated on February 19, 2020 a YouTube post

“The coronavirus was invented and patented in the USA and then planted in China.”

March 10, 2020

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