“I closed our country to China. Nancy Pelosi was, a month later, saying, ‘It’s going to pass.’ Everybody — even Tony Fauci was saying, ‘It’s going to pass, not going to be a big deal.’”
Donald Trump
Claim dated 3 May 2020.
The New York Times rated thisFalse.
In short
Donald Trump made this claim around 3 May 2020. The New York Times (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 May 2020, 4 days 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.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-fox-news-virtual-…
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