“We had over 44, if I'm not mistaken, people from the CDC in China. ... The president brought home the vast majority of them and I think left only four in place.”
What FactCheck.org found
CDC’s staff in China was reduced from approximately 47 people to about 14 under President Donald Trump, according to Reuters story cited by the Biden campaign.
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In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 14 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 May 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “Exaggerates”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- breitbart.comhttps://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/05/15/biden-trump-was-praising-china-and-now-hes-try…
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