“Back in January, I wrote an article for USA Today saying, ‘We’ve got a pandemic. We’ve got a real problem.’”
What Washington Post found
Biden overstates what he said in January; he did not flatly say it was a pandemic, but referred to the “possibility of a pandemic."
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (former vice president) made this claim around 17 September 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 September 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half true”.
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/2003/27/se.01.html
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