“Trump gave China more than praise. He shipped China 17 tons of American masks and medical supplies. Our masks and supplies. Supplies we need now.”
What Washington Post found
These were donations by private charities and public companies; all the State Department did was supply planes that would have been empty anyway.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
American Bridge 21st Century (Democratic Super PAC) made this claim around 17 April 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 April 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
American Bridge 21st Century has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://youtu.be/yPVmloKuqYI
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