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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 • 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2020 a meeting at the White House:
“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing” on the coronavirus.
False
By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2020
Lou Dobbs
Lou Dobbs
stated on March 2, 2020 a TV interview:
The United States is “actually screening fewer people (for the coronavirus than other countries) because we don't have appropriate testing."
Mostly True
By Bill McCarthy • March 4, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on February 24, 2020 a post on Facebook:
"Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.”
Half-True
By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2020
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on February 29, 2020 a speech at CPAC:
Says the media cut out his request of Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s emails “right at the end so that you don’t see the laughter, the joke.”
False
By Amy Sherman • March 2, 2020
Committee to Defend the President
Committee to Defend the President
stated on February 25, 2020 a television ad attacking Joe Biden:
Says Obama said black people have the "worst jobs, the worst housing" and face rampant police brutality, "but when so-called black committeemen came around election time we’d all line up and vote the straight Democratic ticket, sell our souls for a Christmas turkey."
Pants on Fire!
By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2020
Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien
stated on February 25, 2020 a CNN interview:
Says Bernie Sanders has said “things like women get cancer from having too many orgasms, or toddlers should run around naked and touch each others' genitals to insulate themselves from porn … He's written about women's rape fantasies."
Half-True
By Bill McCarthy • February 26, 2020
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