Lie March 23, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“One of the things we fixed -- if you look at the obsolete system that this administration inherited, it wasn't meant for this.”

Said
March 23, 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 17956)

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