Lie March 26, 2020 · Interview · Coronavirus

“But the H1N1, the Swine Flu, people don't even remember it but it killed 17,000 people. That's a lot of people. A lot.... 17,000 people [died in this country]. So that's, you know, they -- they acted very, very late. [The Obama administration was] incredibly late and the news, the media, I won't be a wise guy on your show and call it what a lot of people know it is. It's so unfair. It's so unfair. If we could only have a fair media in this country, our country would be an even place to be. But the -- the media did nothing to criticize anybody.”

Said
March 26, 2020
Where
Interview
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
62 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17904)

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