“You know, before we had a single coronavirus case in this country, this President shut down all travel from China.”
What FactCheck.org found
CDC confirmed the first COVID-19 case Jan. 20 -- 11 days before travel restrictions were announced and "all travel from China" was not shut down. There were exceptions for U.S. citizens, permanent residents and family.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Pence (Vice President) made this claim around 16 June 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 June 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Mike Pence has 46 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 25 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-vice-president-pence-winnebago-in…
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