Latest Fact Checks By Jon Greenberg

Trump says he always felt coronavirus was a pandemic. He didn’t talk that way

By Jon Greenberg

March 18, 2020

“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.”

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Donald Trump falsely says WHO coronavirus test ‘was a bad test’

By Jon Greenberg

March 17, 2020

The WHO coronavirus test “was a bad test.”

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Celebrities are sharing a misleading post about Trump’s response to coronavirus

By Daniel Funke , Jon Greenberg , Louis Jacobson , Victoria Knight

March 17, 2020

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…

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Biden falsely says Trump administration rejected WHO coronavirus test kits (that were never offered)

By Jon Greenberg , Victoria Knight

March 16, 2020

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…

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Sanders’ misleading Social Security attack on Biden

By Jon Greenberg

March 12, 2020

Says Joe Biden "has advocated cutting Social Security for 40 years"

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Sanders is correct: NAFTA, China trade cost thousands of jobs in Michigan

By Jon Greenberg

March 10, 2020

“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…

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Trump wrongly blames Obama for limits on coronavirus testing

By Jon Greenberg

March 6, 2020

“The Obama administration made a decision on testing that turned out to be very detrimental to what we’re doing” on the coronavirus.

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Pro-Sanders post said US sanctions blocked access to a Cuban lung cancer vaccine. Is that true?

By Jon Greenberg

March 4, 2020

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

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Pro-Trump PAC takes Obama book quote out of context to attack Biden

By Amy Sherman , Jon Greenberg

February 27, 2020

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…

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No, Bernie Sanders did not collaborate with Marxist regimes

By Jon Greenberg

February 27, 2020

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

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Fact-checking Bernie Sanders’ claim on Cuba literacy under Castro

By Jon Greenberg

February 24, 2020

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

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Buttigieg’s bad math exaggerates the budget gap in Sanders’ big plans

By Jon Greenberg

February 20, 2020

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

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