Lie March 21, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“We took over an obsolete, broken testing system that wouldn't have worked for even a small problem, let alone one of the biggest pandemics in history.”

Said
March 21, 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 17702)

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