“The excess mortality rate is among the best in the whole world.”
Donald Trump
President. ABC News town hall. Claim dated 15 Sep 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
The U.S.'s excess mortality rate is higher, not lower, than the rate in most European countries.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 15 September 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 September 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.
Where the claim appeared
- abcnews.go.comhttps://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-abc-news-town-hall-full-transcript/story?id=730354…
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