Fact Check Posts – Page 12

Chuck Todd
stated on May 10, 2020 in a TV segment:

Says Attorney General William Barr didn’t cite the "rule of law” in explaining his decision in the Michael Flynn case during a CBS News interview.

By Bill McCarthy • May 11, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 28, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“So 2 doctors from Bakersfield discover that coronavirus mortality rate is 0.03%. 13x less deadly than what was previously thought! Their analysis has since been banned from YouTube.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 7, 2020

Laura Ingraham
stated on May 4, 2020 in a TV segment:

"There was no real scientific basis for believing that" social distancing would be necessary, "since it had never been studied."

By Bill McCarthy • May 6, 2020

Tucker Carlson
stated on April 27, 2020 in a TV segment:

“The (corona)virus just isn’t nearly as deadly as we thought it was.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020

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.”

By Bill McCarthy • May 4, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on April 26, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Joe Biden was involved in a plot to kidnap JFK Jr. according to the just declassified FBI files, and also made several threats."

By Bill McCarthy • April 27, 2020

Phil McGraw
stated on April 16, 2020 in a Fox News appearance:

There are “360,000 (deaths) a year from swimming pools. But we don’t shut the country down for that.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 17, 2020

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."

By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020

AFL-CIO
stated on April 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

"The Postal Service is not losing money because of Amazon. It’s losing money because in 2006, the Republican-led Congress passed a law forcing it to prepay its pensions for 75 years, which no other corporation does ... Without this law, the Postal Service would be turning a profit.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 15, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 27, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says video of body bags being dumped in a ditch shows the “situation in Italy” due to the coronavirus.

By Bill McCarthy • April 13, 2020

Charlie Kirk
stated on April 3, 2020 in a tweet:

“The Chinese Communist Party is using Zoom as a way to spy on our citizens.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 7, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 23, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“This lady here applied sanitizer to her hands/forearms & went to the kitchen to cook. The moment she turned on the gas stove, her hands caught fire due to the alcohol contained in the sanitizer.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 3, 2020

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.”

By Bill McCarthy • April 2, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 21, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“All schools in Canada are closed for the rest of the school year, each family will receive $950 every two weeks for the next 15 weeks, banks were notif(ied) to suspend mortgage payments for at least 6 months, and student loans deferred.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 25, 2020

Bloggers
stated on March 20, 2020 in an article:

“Fish tank additive may treat coronavirus.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 24, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 15, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“So Oscar Health, the company tapped by Trump to profit from covid tests, is a Kushner company. Imagine that, profits over national safety.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 23, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 18, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says President Donald Trump said, “People are dying who have never died before.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 19, 2020

Sean Hannity
stated on March 16, 2020 in a TV segment:

“Now, as it stands, our health care system has adequate ventilators, ICU beds, medical professionals.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 18, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on March 9, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“Coronavirus — 22. Clintons — 39.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 16, 2020

Michael Dougherty
stated on March 12, 2020 in a tweet:

“Some states are only getting 50 tests per day, and the Utah Jazz got 58.”

By Bill McCarthy • March 13, 2020

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