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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 30, 2020 in a tweet:
During protests outside the White House, Mayor Muriel Bowser "wouldn't let the D.C. Police get involved."
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • June 1, 2020
Brian Fitzpatrick
Brian Fitzpatrick
stated on May 5, 2020 in a radio interview:
“For the World Health Organization, the international entity whose sole responsibility it is to alert the world of global pandemics like this, to miss this, is a huge problem.”
Mostly False
By Jessica Calefati • May 30, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:
“Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH” by adding a fact-check label to Trump’s tweet.
Pants on Fire!
By Bill McCarthy • May 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 25, 2020 in a tweet:
“[U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb] said he would NOT vote for [Nancy Pelosi] for Speaker, and did.”
Pants on Fire!
By Jessica Calefati • May 27, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in 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 in 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
By Julia Shanahan • May 22, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on May 16, 2020 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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