Progressive-Democratic Party Presidential candidate Joe Biden has been busy….
Falsely claimed wrote a USA Today op-ed in late January warning that a pandemic was coming and calling for action
The article itself was more of an attack on President Trump…than a detailed plan for action against a possible pandemic
Falsely claimed 36,000 lives could have been saved “if he had listened to me…and acted just one week earlier”
[H]e did not specifically call for social-distancing measures as early as March 1 or even March 8, though he implies that he did
Falsely claimed that he called for the use of the Defense Production Act “before anybody” and as early as January
A full 18 days before Biden made his first public comment on the act, Trump’s Health and Human Services secretary had publicly floated the idea, and Trump made it official the same day Biden made his remarks… We rate the statement False
Falsely claimed that he warned not to trust China “from the beginning”
[H]e first said China could not be trusted Feb 26
Falsely claimed he called for US experts to go into China in January
By the time Biden said this, US scientists were already on the ground as part of a team in Wuhan
Falsely claimed that the Trump Administration made “no effort” to get US medical experts into China to investigate coronavirus
Joe Biden was wrong when he said that the Trump administration made no effort to get US medical experts into China
Falsely claimed he called for temporary hospitals to be built “months ago”
Biden hadn’t raised building hospitals “months ago.” He first mentioned doing so March 12 during his speech on the coronavirus[.]
Falsely accused President Trump of refusing World Health Organization testing kits
The WHO never offered to sell test kits to the United States”
Falsely accused President Trump of eliminating the White House Pandemic Response Office
[S]ome team members were shifted to other groups, and others took over some of Ziemer’s duties[.]”
Falsely accused President Trump of muzzling scientists
Biden went too far[.]”
His campaign falsely accused President Trump of “silencing a top CDC official”
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Falsely accused President Trump of cutting funding for the CDC and the NIH
Biden is “wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut[.]”
Falsely accused President Trump of calling coronavirus a hoax
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Falsely claimed “18,000 people got clemency” while he was Vice President.
18,749 petitions for clemency were denied.