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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, 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
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
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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 30, 2020 an interview on "Fox and Friends"
“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • March 31, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 28, 2020 a news article
“Swing State Hit With 2020 Voting Lawsuit - Accused Of Registering Over 1,500 Deceased People In Pennsylvania.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • March 27, 2020
Brad Parscale
Brad Parscale
stated on February 25, 2020 a Tweet
“Did you see President Trump’s RECORD TURNOUT? Iowa - 32,389 Republicans.”
Half-True
By Rylee Wilson • March 20, 2020
Donald Trump
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.”
Pants on Fire!
By Shefali Luthra, Shefali Luthra • March 19, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 a Facebook post
Says President Donald Trump said, “People are dying who have never died before.”
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • March 19, 2020
Donald Trump
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.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 a White House press conference
The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 a Democratic primary debate
The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • March 16, 2020
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on March 15, 2020 the Democratic debate in Washington D.C.
Says Bernie Sanders voted against the auto bailout
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • March 16, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 11, 2020 a television ad attacking Joe Biden
Says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years"
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2020
Joy Behar
Joy Behar
stated on March 9, 2020 an episode of ABC's "The View"
“(Barack Obama) set up anti-pandemic programs in 47 vulnerable countries as a way to protect against something like the coronavirus, exactly. Do you know that Trump closed 37 of them?”
False
By Bill McCarthy • March 12, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on February 28, 2020 posts on social media
“Every election year has a disease” ... SARS in 2004; avian flu in 2008; swine flu in 2010; MERS in 2012; Ebola in 2014 and 2018; Zika in 2016 and the coronavirus in 2020.
False
By Emily Venezky • March 11, 2020
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2020 an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press"
“Trade agreements like NAFTA and permanent normal trade relations with China, which forced American workers to compete against people making pennies an hour, has resulted in the loss of 160,000 jobs here in Michigan."
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020
Mike Pence
Mike Pence
stated on March 4, 2020 in a press briefing
“With regard to the cost, let me be very clear: HHS has designated the coronavirus test as an essential health benefit. That means, by definition, it's covered in the private health insurance of every American, as well as covered by Medicare and Medicaid."
Half-True
By Julie Appleby • March 6, 2020
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