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Sep 16, 2020 • 10 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Fact-checking President Trump's ABC town hall claims on coronavirus, Joe Biden bit.ly/32Bd0Uj THREAD: Image
Trump deflected criticism of how he has handled the pandemic. Even as the death toll — about 200,000 — moves toward the higher end of initial forecasts, Trump said he took strong steps to stem the spread of the disease.
When ABC host George Stephanopulous asked him why he hadn’t yet put forward a replacement plan with protections in place, Trump said, "I have it all ready." He has promised this before, it has not emerged: politifact.com/article/2020/a… @KHNews
Trump: "We have 20% of the cases because of the fact that we do much more testing. If we wouldn’t do testing, you wouldn’t have cases. You would have very few cases."

This is wrong. Testing reveals cases if they are there to be found. politifact.com/factchecks/202…
Trump: "I didn’t say one way or the other" that Chinese President Xi Jinping was doing a good job handling the new coronavirus.

This is false. Trump said Feb. 23 that Xi "is doing a very good job."

Trump: "Joe Biden said I was xenophobic because I put the ban on, and I thought that was a very unfair, and by the way he’s totally taken that back."

It’s Mostly False that Biden called him xenophobic for issuing a travel ban politifact.com/article/2020/a…
and it’s False that Biden has "taken that back" since Biden did not explicitly called the travel restrictions xenophobic. politifact.com/factchecks/202…
"We were short on ventilators because the cupboards were bare when we took it over."
Mostly False: politifact.com/factchecks/202…

In April, during the first few months of the pandemic, we found that most states had procured enough ventilators to match the demand.
Trump on ABC: Democrats "will get rid of preexisting conditions" protections.
Pants on Fire! Biden wants to keep the Affordable Care Act and its protections for people with preexisting conditions.

bit.ly/2GN6fpT
Trump, speaking of Biden, said "If you look at his policies, where he wants to raise everybody’s taxes."

That's False: Biden’s tax plan would raise taxes on corporations and people making over $400,000 a year.
That's not a formal tax increase: bit.ly/2QXChBE

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