Fact Check Posts – Page 9

Donald Trump
stated on June 17, 2020 in an interview with the Wall Street Journal:

Says before he planned a rally on June 19 “nobody had ever heard of” Juneteenth.

By Jon Greenberg • June 18, 2020

Desiree Rogers
stated on June 10, 2020 in an interview on CNN:

In COVID-19 crisis, “only 20% of African Americans had jobs where they could work from home.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2020

Viral image
stated on June 10, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Wearing the Kente cloth “worn by affluent African slave traders” is “like honoring Jews by wearing swastikas.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 12, 2020

William Barr
stated on June 7, 2020 in an interview on CBS News' Face the Nation:

“There were not chemical irritants” used to clear a crowd. Pepper balls are “not a chemical irritant.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 8, 2020

Kayleigh McEnany
stated on June 3, 2020 in a White House press briefing:

“No tear gas was used and no rubber bullets were used.”

By Jon Greenberg • June 4, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 26, 2020 in a tweet:

There are “many unanswered and obvious questions” about the 2001 death of a staff member of Joe Scarborough.

By Jon Greenberg • May 26, 2020

Bloggers
stated on May 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

“The House Democrats snuck a provision into their $3 trillion bailout bill today that would keep the house in recess until July 21.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 22, 2020

Joe Biden
stated on May 14, 2020 in an interview on MSNBC:

The U.S. had 44 CDC staffers “in China to observe what was going on. (President Trump) brought home the vast majority of them, I think left only four in place.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 21, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on May 19, 2020 in remarks to reporters at the Capitol:

“If you look at the one (hydroxychloroquine) survey, the only bad survey, they were giving it to people that were in very bad shape. They were very old. Almost dead.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 20, 2020

Stacey Abrams
stated on May 7, 2020 in an interview with Mother Jones:

“Since the reopening of (Georgia), we’ve seen our COVID rate skyrocket by 40%.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 15, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 23, 2020 in a post on TikTok:

“It’s not the coronavirus that’s killing people. It is the economy.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 14, 2020

X posts
stated on May 10, 2020 in a tweet:

Barack Obama “is the first ex-president to ever speak against his successor.”

By Jon Greenberg • May 11, 2020

Rudy Giuliani
stated on April 26, 2020 in a tweet:

"Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?"

By Jon Greenberg • May 1, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

“President Trump just announced that the ‘biological’ lab in Wuhan where the COVID-19 virus was created was ‘funded’ by President Barak (sp) Hussein Obama in 2015 to the tune of $3,800,000 American dollars!”

By Jon Greenberg • April 30, 2020

Bloggers
stated on April 22, 2020 in a post on Facebook:

“People defying stay-at-home order fill Arizona beaches.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 27, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on April 20, 2020 in a daily coronavirus press briefing:

“Hundreds and hundreds of labs are ready, willing, and able.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 23, 2020

Candace Owens
stated on April 6, 2020 in a tweet:

“Everyone is only dying of coronavirus now.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 14, 2020

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.

By Jon Greenberg • April 6, 2020

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.”

By Jon Greenberg • April 3, 2020

Donald Trump
stated on March 30, 2020 in an interview on "Fox and Friends":

“We inherited a broken test” for COVID-19.

By Jon Greenberg • March 31, 2020

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