“Former Rep. Trey Gowdy wrote a viral post claiming the COVID-19 pandemic was planned and it "all seems rather convenient for the nations and opponents of our current President and economy 5 months before an election.”
Social media posts
Facebook. Claim dated 22 Apr 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The former Republican congressman did not write a conspiracy-theory post circulating on Facebook that implies, without any proof, that the outbreak was planned to help Democrats in the 2020 election.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 22 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 May 2020, 12 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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