Fact check: President Trump repeated inaccuracies about topics including his travel restrictions on China and Europe (they weren't full bans) and trade with China (it's not true that the US had never previously received any money from China)
Washington President Donald Trump did not hold an official coronavirus briefing on Thursday. Instead, he took questions from reporters after a White House event about protecting seniors -- and, as he did at the official briefings, made a bunch of false and misleading claims.
Asked about his previous compliments for China's response to the virus, Trump falsely suggested that the compliments had all come before the virus arrived in the US and before he had finalized a trade deal with China. And he dubiously suggested that he had quickly solved coronavirus testing problems, though many public health experts say he was slow to react and that the country is still far from a sufficient number of tests.
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