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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
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 16, 2020 a Facebook post:
The government is closing businesses to stop the spread of coronavirus even though "the numbers are nothing compared to H1N1 or Ebola. Everyone needs to realize our government is up to something ...”
Pants on Fire!
By Jessica Calefati • April 6, 2020
Joe Biden
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.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on March 31, 2020 comments made during an episode of "The Five" on the Fox News Channel:
“We were slow with the testing, but very quick with the travel ban. And that's been much more critical in saving lives.”
False
By Shefali Luthra • April 3, 2020
Facebook posts
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.”
True
By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020
Pat Toomey
Pat Toomey
stated on March 28, 2020 a video on Twitter:
“My mask will keep someone else safe and their mask will keep me safe.”
True
By Daniel Funke, Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on March 23, 2020 comments he made on the radio:
“We’ve got to give the American public a rough estimate of how long we think this is going to take, based mostly on the South Korean model, which seems to be the trajectory that we are on, thankfully, and not the Italian model.”
Half-True
By Jessica Calefati • April 1, 2020
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