“Says of President Donald Trump’s actions on the coronavirus: “No. 1, he fired the pandemic team two years ago. No. 2, he's been defunding the Centers for Disease Control.”
Mike Bloomberg
Democratic presidential candidate. a CNN town hall. Claim dated 26 Feb 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
In short
Mike Bloomberg (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 26 February 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 28 February 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Mike Bloomberg has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/26/se.01.html
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