Lie March 5, 2020 · Interview · Coronavirus

“I want to get everybody to understand, they made some decisions which were not good decisions. We inherited decisions that [the Obama administration] made...We undid some of the regulations that were made that made it very difficult [to start testing].”

Said
March 5, 2020
Where
Interview
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 17987)

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