“Back in January, I wrote an article for USA Today saying, we’ve got a pandemic.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. CNN town hall. Claim dated 17 Sep 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisExaggerates
What FactCheck.org found
He warned about the “possibility of a pandemic."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 17 September 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 21 September 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2009/17/se.01.html
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