Lie March 13, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“We had some very old and obsolete rules that we had to live with. It worked under certain circumstances but not under mass circumstances. They were there for a long time; they were in place for a long time. And we're breaking them down now. And they're very usable for certain instances, but not for this.”

Said
March 13, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
14 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17668)

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