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Latest Fact-Checks On Donald Trump

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Donald Trump
stated on April 6, 2020 in a White House briefing:
The Obama administration left Trump with a “stockpile with a cupboard that was bare.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • April 8, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 26, 2020 in a Hannity show interview:
Speaking of his restriction on travel from China, “I had (Joe) Biden calling me xenophobic. … He called me a racist, because of the fact that he felt it was a racist thing to stop people from China coming in.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 27, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 12, 2020 in a tweet:
Says Joe Biden “was in charge of the H1N1 Swine Flu epidemic which killed thousands of people. The response was one of the worst on record. Our response is one of the best, with fast action of border closings & a 78% Approval Rating, the highest on record. His was lowest!”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • March 15, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on March 7, 2020 in a tweet:
Video shows Joe Biden saying “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • March 9, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 6, 2020 in a speech:
Says Republicans just won two congressional seats in North Carolina “that were not supposed to be won.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • February 11, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union address to Congress:
“Our new (health care) plans are up to 60% less expensive and better” than Obamacare.
Mostly False
By Julie Appleby • February 10, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on February 4, 2020 in his State of the Union:
Last year, “for the first time in 51 years, the cost of prescription drugs actually went down.”
Mostly False
By Shefali Luthra • February 5, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on January 8, 2020 in a White House address:
“The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration at a cost of $2.5 trillion.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • January 10, 2020
Donald Trump
stated on November 1, 2019 in a rally in Mississippi:
Says “Stacey Abrams wants to give illegal aliens the right to vote.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • November 6, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on October 27, 2019 in a press conference:
Says in his 2000 book “I was talking about Osama bin Laden. I said, ‘You have to kill him. You have to take him out.’”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman, Warren Fiske • October 28, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on September 24, 2019 in an exchange with reporters at the UN:
“Europe and other nations (need to) contribute to Ukraine. Because they’re not doing it. Just the United States. We’re putting up the bulk of the money.”  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • September 25, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on September 9, 2019 in a rally in Fayetteville, N.C.:
China has “had now the worst year in 57 years.”
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • September 10, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on August 27, 2019 in a tweet:
Says Dan McCready “believes in open borders and sanctuary cities.”
Mostly False
By Paul Specht • August 30, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 in a press conference in Biarritz, France:
Crimea “was sort of taken away from President Obama. … And he wanted Russia to be out of what was called the G-8. And that was his determination.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 27, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on August 26, 2019 in a post-G7 news conference:
“We made a ridiculous deal (with Iran). We gave them $150 billion. We gave them $1.8 billion, and we got nothing.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 27, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech in Monaca, Pa.:
“We were losing all our cases in the World Trade Organization. … And then I came along. Now we’re winning a lot of cases because they know that they’re not on very solid ground.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on August 13, 2019 in a speech at a chemical plant in Pennsylvania:
Says the large trade deficit with Japan stems from them sending “millions of cars,” while “we send them wheat,” but the deficit is “changing rapidly.”  
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • August 15, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on July 31, 2019 in a re-election campaign ad:
Says the Democratic presidential candidates “support giving illegal immigrants free health care at our expense.”
Mostly False
By Miriam Valverde • August 1, 2019
Donald Trump
stated on June 30, 2019 in remarks to South Korean business leaders:
“We hadn’t had a (car) plant built in years — in decades, actually. And now we have many plants being built all throughout the United States.”
Mostly False
By Jon Greenberg • July 9, 2019
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