Fact Check Posts – Page 10

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.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 18, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 17, 2020 in a White House press conference:

The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 17, 2020

Instagram posts
stated on March 15, 2020 in a screenshot:

Says Donald Trump “cut funding to the CDC,” “fired the Pandemic Response Team,” “refused WHO tests” and “wasted two weeks calling this outbreak a ‘Democrat hoax.’”

By Daniel Funke, Jon Greenberg, Louis Jacobson, Victoria Knight • March 17, 2020

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.”

By Jon Greenberg, Victoria Knight • March 16, 2020

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"

By Jon Greenberg • March 12, 2020

Bernie Sanders
stated on March 8, 2020 in 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."

By Jon Greenberg • March 10, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 4, 2020 in 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.

By Jon Greenberg • March 6, 2020

Bloggers
stated on February 24, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

"Cuba has a lung cancer vaccine we in the US had no access to because we sanctioned Cuba.”

By Jon Greenberg • March 4, 2020

Committee to Defend the President
stated on February 25, 2020 in 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."

By Amy Sherman, Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2020

Bloggers
stated on February 8, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

Says Bernie Sanders “collaborated with Marxist regimes in the Soviet Union, Nicaragua and Cuba.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 27, 2020

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 23, 2020 in an interview on CBS News' "60 Minutes":

“When Fidel Castro came into office, you know what he did? He had a massive literacy program.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 24, 2020

Pete Buttigieg
stated on February 19, 2020 in the Democratic debate in Nevada:

The budget hole in Bernie Sanders’ plans “is bigger than the size of the entire economy of the United States."

By Jon Greenberg • February 20, 2020

Bernie Sanders
stated on February 15, 2020 in a speech in Las Vegas:

Says Mike Bloomberg “opposed modest proposals during Barack Obama’s presidency to raise taxes on the wealthy, while advocating for cuts to Medicare and Social Security.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 18, 2020

Bloggers
stated on October 18, 2019 in a post on Facebook:

Says Elizabeth Warren, asked about the Mollie Tibbetts murder, said “I know this is hard for her family, but they have to remember that we need to focus on real problems, like illegal immigrants not being able to see their kids.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 14, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on January 28, 2020 in comments at a campaign rally:

"Earnings for the bottom 10% are rising faster than earnings for the top 10%.”

By Jon Greenberg • February 3, 2020

Jay Sekulow
stated on January 22, 2020 in the Senate impeachment trial:

Says President Donald Trump’s hold on Ukraine aid was like when "the Obama administration withheld $585 million of promised aid to Egypt in 2013 ... (and within the fiscal year) they didn't have to disclose the halt to anyone."

By Jon Greenberg • January 28, 2020

Bloggers
stated on January 4, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says Rep. Rashida Tlaib "wears the symbolic scarf patterned after the Islamic terrorist state."

By Jon Greenberg • January 17, 2020

Bloggers
stated on January 12, 2020 in a web post:

Says Joe Biden "tells men to marry into families ‘with 3 or 4 sisters.’"

By Jon Greenberg • January 17, 2020

Bloggers
stated on December 25, 2019 in a post on a fake news website:

"Cory Booker’s son charged with assault after attack on Santa."

By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2020

Bloggers
stated on December 25, 2019 in a fake news post:

Says Nancy Pelosi said, if impeachment "doesn’t go through, I’ll resign."

By Jon Greenberg • January 2, 2020

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