“[W]hen we came here, you had very few ventilators in this country. … [W]e stocked up those shelves. The cupboard was empty, and we filled up the cupboards.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Trump administration inherited more ventilators in the Strategic National Stockpile than it ended up distributing amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 18 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 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-govern…
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