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| China Joe Has Earned 11 Pinocchios From Fact-Checkers During Coronavirus Crisis |
| 2021-01-30 |
| [Free Beacon] Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden has been dinged several times by fact-checkers over claims he has made during the coronavirus crisis, including a total of 11 "Pinocchios" from the Washington Post. Over the course of three weeks between March 13 and April 3, Biden was fact-checked five separate times for making false or misleading claims concerning the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic. A Washington Post fact check on March 13 awarded Biden four Pinocchios, the fact-checker's most severe rating, for two manipulated videos the Biden campaign circulated. The first video claimed to show Trump at a Feb. 28 rally saying Democrats were turning the coronavirus into "their new hoax" after they failed to bring Trump down through impeachment. Biden's video was edited to make it appear that Trump was calling the coronavirus a hoax. Trump, however, was referring to the Democrats' attempts to blame him for the virus, not the virus itself. The second Biden campaign video showed Trump saying the phrase "the American Dream is dead," which the Post found was taken out of context and missing the second part of Trump's statement where he promised to "bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before." Another Post fact check on March 24 gave the campaign four Pinocchios after adviser Ron Klain accused Trump of silencing Dr. Nancy Messonnier of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "The president and the White House sent a clear message to scientists in the government—there would be a price for speaking out and speaking up," he said in a campaign video released on March 21. Messonnier continued to hold routine phone briefings with reporters in the weeks after she raised the alarm about the virus at a press conference with Trump. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Where we find out Pinocchio is no longer an Interesting Italian but a right wing extremist who isn't interested in your train running on time. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2021-01-30 13:32 |
| #3 Still, I'm surprised the WaPo was fact-checking Biden. That must have been when they were pushing for a real progressive, not a worn-out old glue-factory horse. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2021-01-30 08:56 |
| #2 ...and with this administration, that's the last time a serious 'fact check' will be performed. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-01-30 08:45 |
| #1 From April 2020 |
| Posted by: Frank G 2021-01-30 07:28 |