“Says N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo “rejected buying recommended 16,000 ventilators in 2015 for the pandemic, for a pandemic, established death panels and lotteries instead. So, he had a chance to buy, in 2015, 16,000 ventilators at a very low price, and he turned it down.”
Donald Trump
President of the United States. in a Fox News town hall. Claim dated 24 Mar 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 24 March 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 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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