“If you go back and look at the swine flu, and what happened with the swine flu ... and how actually nothing was done for such a long period of time, as people were dying all over the place.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. White House. Claim dated 13 Mar 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 13 March 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 March 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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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