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Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on April 15, 2020 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 • March 19, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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 in 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
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