“By the way, I did that very early, while Nancy Pelosi was trying to have, in San Francisco, parties in Chinatown. Because they — she thought it would be great. She wanted to show that this thing doesn’t exist.”
What Washington Post found
Trump says Pelosi urged street fairs and parades, but that’s not true. She advocated patronage of Chinese businesses. She was not trying to show the virus did not exist.
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In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 15 April 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 24 April 2020, 9 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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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