Lie March 20, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“And this is not a drug that -- obviously, I think I can speak for a lot of -- from a lot of experience, because it's been out there for over 20 years. So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with. It's not like a brand-new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect, like kill you...I sure as hell think we ought to give [hydroxychloroquine] a try. I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good -- very good things. Let's see what happens. We have nothing to lose.”

Said
March 20, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
43 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 17973)

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