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In a call with past members of his administration, former President Barack Obama criticized the Trump administration for bungling the response to the coronavirus. “It would have been bad even with the best of governments,” Obama said May 8. “It has been an absolute chaotic disaster.” Obama’s words drew anger from Presid...

President Donald Trump repeated the misleading claim that former Vice President Joe Biden called him xenophobic for banning travel from China in response to the coronavirus outbreak.

Responding to weeks of criticism over his administration’s COVID-19 response, President Donald Trump claimed at a White House briefing that the United States has well surpassed other countries in testing people for the virus. “We’ve tested more than every country combined,” Trump said April 27. It was ...

Politifact looks into President Donald Trump’s claims about coronavirus testing.

While President Donald Trump has lauded increased testing for COVID-19, his rival Joe Biden said the administration has failed to deliver on its promises. “The Trump Administration promised 27 million tests by the end of March. As of now, only 4 million have been completed,” Biden tweeted April 21. Tests play a huge role in managing the...

President Donald Trump said he was considering whether to stop domestic travel between U.S. hotspots for COVID-19. As he explained his reluctance to harm the transportation industry, Trump inaccurately said airline and train passengers were already being tested for the disease. “We have to get our country back, we have to start moving again, ...

President Donald Trump argued with “PBS NewsHour” reporter Yamiche Alcindor over what the president had said, or hadn’t said, about New York’s need for ventilators.

Former Vice President Joe Biden said Sen. Bernie Sanders talks in a way that one would think Sanders and Barack Obama “were close buddies.” But they were not, Biden said, claiming that Sanders was against Obama’s signature health care law. Sanders “opposed Obamacare, didn’t like the fact we didn’t push a single-payer o...

Defending his “medicare for all” proposal in a recent Democratic presidential debate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued the massive health care expansion would actually save the system hundreds of billions of dollars. PolitiFact went digging into Sanders’ claim that in addition to saving the money, it would also save some 68,000 ...

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., used the Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas to launch attacks against Mike Bloomberg, including his the billionaire’s rhetoric on the collapse of the housing market and financial crisis. “When Mayor Bloomberg was busy blaming African Americans and Latinos for the housing crash of 2008, I was right here...

Former New York City mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg got attacked on the debate stage last week on several issues, including his record on the stop-and-frisk police policy. Bloomberg said too many people were stopped and he apologized just before announcing his run for the White House. He also claimed that when he disc...

During the Feb. 7 Democratic presidential debate, former Vice President Joe Biden once again questioned the price tag of “Medicare for All,” the single-payer health care proposal championed by one of his key rivals, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Biden argued that the plan was fiscally irresponsible and would require raising middle-class ...

In his third State of the Union address, President Trump claimed that since he took office: “7 million Americans have come off of food stamps and 10 million have been lifted off of welfare.” There is some data to back him up when it comes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, but our analysis found t...