“Tijuana is the most heavily infected place anywhere in the world, as far as the plague is concerned," referring to the novel coronavirus.”
What FactCheck.org found
You don’t have to look very far from the Mexican city to find a place with a much higher infection rate: the city of San Diego, California, right across the border.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 5 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 10 June 2020, 5 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-roundtable-suppor…
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