“I find it incomprehensible that the president would do something as inane as calling [the novel coronavirus] a hoax, which he did [Friday] night in South Carolina.”
Mike Bloomberg
Democratic candidate for president. CBS' "60 Minutes". Claim dated 1 Mar 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisLacks Context
In short
Mike Bloomberg (Democratic candidate for president) made this claim around 1 March 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 March 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Lacks Context”.
Mike Bloomberg has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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