“Why did the US (NIH) in 2017 give $3.7m to the Wuhan Lab in China? Such grants were prohibited in 2014. Did Pres. Obama grant an exception?”
Rudy Giuliani
Personal lawyer for President Donald Trump. In a tweet. Claim dated 26 Apr 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
The lab got about $600,000. U.S. policy specifically allowed the kind of work it was doing for the project.
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In short
Rudy Giuliani (Personal lawyer for President Donald Trump) made this claim around 26 April 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 May 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Rudy Giuliani has 12 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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