“Wuhan Institute of Virology received "$7.5 million in 2014 ... by the Obama administration early on. … I ended it.”
What FactCheck.org found
The Wuhan Institute of Virology received $600,000 as part of a larger five-year U.S. government grant to a U.S.-based nonprofit studying emerging infectious diseases.
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In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 14 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 15 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.
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