“Italy was “hit hard” by the coronavirus pandemic because “a lot of the people that didn’t come in here went to Italy" when the U.S. imposed travel restrictions on China.”
What FactCheck.org found
We could find no evidence to support President Trump’s claim. In fact, Italy cut off air travel to and from China two days before the U.S. enacted its travel restrictions.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 19 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 April 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pe…
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