“We had a ventilator problem that was caused by the fact that we weren’t left ventilators by a previous administration.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in a 2017 article that there were roughly 9,000 ventilators in the federal stockpile as of at least 2010, and ventilators in the U.S. stockpile had never been used.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 30 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 May 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
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-protecting-americ…
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