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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 a tweet
There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on January 30, 2020 remarks at a public event in Des Moines
"Under three years of my administration, net farm income has already gone up nearly 50%."
Mostly True
May 22, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 16, 2020 a Facebook post
“The House Democrats snuck a provision into their $3 trillion bailout bill today that would keep the house in recess until July 21.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • May 22, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2020 an interview on MSNBC
The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • May 21, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 remarks to reporters at the Capitol
“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on May 11, 2020 a Facebook post
“Gov. Wolf is not allowing companies that distribute U.S. flags to ship out orders to be placed at veteran’s graves for Memorial Day.”
Mostly True
By Jessica Calefati • May 19, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 14, 2020 a speech
“You have areas of Pennsylvania that are barely affected and [the governor wants] to keep them closed.”
Half-True
By Jessica Calefati • May 18, 2020
Stacey Abrams
Stacey Abrams
stated on May 7, 2020 an interview with Mother Jones
“Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 15, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on April 23, 2020 a post on TikTok
“It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2020
Mike Turzai
Mike Turzai
stated on May 9, 2020 a video
“Guess what, [children are] not at risk unless they have an underlying medical issue.”
False
By Jessica Calefati • May 14, 2020
X posts
X posts
stated on May 10, 2020 a tweet
Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2020
Donald Trump
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.”
False
By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020
Bloggers
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!”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2020 a daily coronavirus press briefing
“Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 a Facebook post
“The poor are, ironically, the most likely to be employed in the industries deemed ‘essential’ while their upper-class peers are freed to bunker down for weeks until the first death wave passes.”
True
By Jessica Calefati • April 21, 2020
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on April 15, 2020 a Politico interview
“In a matter of days, and in some cases the moment may even have passed, that we’ve reached the peak of the rate of infections.”
Half-True
By Jessica Calefati • April 16, 2020
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on April 15, 2020 an interview on "Fox & Friends"
"This is COVID-19, not COVID-1, folks. And so you would think the people charged with the World Health Organization facts and figures would be on top of that."
False
By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020
Candace Owens
Candace Owens
stated on April 6, 2020 a tweet
“Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2020
Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum
stated on April 13, 2020 on CNN
"The president looks like he was ahead of the curve – as you know, he talks about this all the time – on shutting down travel from China."
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • April 14, 2020
Donald Trump
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.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2020
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