“Banning dangerous foreign travel" from China on Jan. 31 was one of the actions the Trump administration took to combat the coronavirus “far earlier than anyone would have thought and way ahead of anybody else.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. White House. Claim dated 1 Apr 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisSpins the Facts
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 1 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 April 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Spins the Facts”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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