“It’s called the swine flu, right? And his own person, his chief of staff, said that he was — it was a disaster the way they ran it, a much less lethal problem, but a disaster the way they ran it, a total catastrophe. It was so bad, it was so bad.”
Donald Trump
President. in campaign rally. Claim dated 12 Oct 2020.
Washington Post rated thisMostly False
What Washington Post found
Ron Klain, Biden's chief of staff in 2009, was speaking about vaccines, not the whole swine-flu effort.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 12 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 October 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
Where the claim appeared
Links recorded by Washington Post. Some posts may have been deleted since.
This check was done by Washington Post, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.