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Checked by FactCheck.org24 Jul 2020United StatesHealth
Andrew Cuomo, New York Governor

“Trump is to blame for the virus coming to New York, because that's the fact. That's what the CDC just said. If Trump's government had done its job, the virus wouldn't come here.”

FactCheck.org rated this: CDC Didn't Say That

FactCheck.org says: Cuomo pointed to a study that suggested government officials could have better mitigated the spread of the coronavirus in New York City, but it didn’t say they could have stopped it.

Checked by PolitiFact24 Jul 2020United StatesElections
Social media posts

“Two stamps needed for mail-in ballots.”

PolitiFact rated this: Half True

PolitiFact says: Technically, voters are required to pay for postage if they don’t have a postage-paid ballot. But the U.S. Postal Service says its policy is to deliver mail ballots to election offices even if the ballots lack postage.

Checked by FactCheck.org23 Jul 2020United States
National Republican Senatorial Committee, Official party committee

“Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper accepted donations from an oil and gas company and "let them get away" without fines or prosecution after a fatal home explosion in 2017.”

FactCheck.org rated this: Distorts the Facts

FactCheck.org says: Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission issued a record fine against the company, but waited for federal investigators to issue a report, which occurred after Hickenlooper left office.

Checked by Washington Post23 Jul 2020United States
Donald Trump, President

“They do say that [children] don’t transmit very easily, and a lot of people are saying they don’t transmit. They don’t bring it home with them. They don’t catch it easily; they don’t bring it home easily.”

Washington Post rated this: Four Pinocchios

Washington Post says: Trump is echoing a claim made by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, which was based on a misinterpretation of the German report that did not apply to conditions in the United States.

Checked by PolitiFact23 Jul 2020United StatesPolitics and government
Hillary Clinton, 2016 Democratic presidential nominee

“Says President Donald Trump “is still yet to say anything as the president of the United States about bounties on American troops.”

PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False

PolitiFact says: Trump has not denounced Russia, but that tracks with the statements he has made, saying the intelligence about Russia bounties was not credible, and that the information reported by the New York Times was a “hoax.”