“He [Donald Trump], in addition to that, when we were talking about early on in this crisis, we said — I said, among others, that, you know, you should get into China, get our experts there, we have the best in the world, get them in so we know what’s actually happening. There was no effort to do that. He didn’t put any pressure on Xi.”
Joe Biden
Former Vice President. in a CNN virtual town hall. Claim dated 27 Mar 2020.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
In short
Joe Biden (Former Vice President) made this claim around 27 March 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 April 2020, 7 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
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.
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