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United States News Title: Former Vice President Joe Biden Keeps Pushing Misinformation About Coronavirus. Here Are 5 Examples Former Vice President Joe Biden has repeatedly pushed misinformation about the COVID-19 coronavirus in political attacks against President Donald Trump and his administration. Biden, the Democratic frontrunner for president, has sought to politically capitalize on the coronavirus pandemic. But on at least five different occasions, Biden and his campaign have spread misinformation about the response to the virus. Biden was dinged by fact-checkers after he falsely accused Trump of cutting the budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We increased the budget of the CDC. We increased the NIH budget.
Hes wiped all that out.
He cut the funding for the entire effort, Biden said at the Feb. 26 debate. Former 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg made a similarly false accusation during the debate. Theyre both wrong to say the agencies have seen their money cut, the AP noted in a fact-check of the comments. Biden falsely said that Trump rejected coronavirus tests from the World Health Organization (WHO). The World Health Organization offered the testing kits that they have available and to give it to us now. We refused them. We did not want to buy them, Biden stated during the March 15 Democratic debate. But that wasnt true. The WHO never offered to sell test kits to the United States, PolitiFact said in its fact-check of Bidens comments. (RELATED: Top WHO Official Won Election With Chinas Help. Now Hes Running Interference For China On Coronavirus) Biden spread the false claim that Trump referred to the virus as a hoax at his Feb. 28 campaign rally in South Carolina. On March 3, Biden tweeted a video that misleadingly spliced together Trump saying coronavirus followed by, this is their new hoax. In reality, Trump said that Democrats political reaction to the virus was a hoax. The video makes it seem like Trump is calling the disease itself a hoax, which he hasnt done. The words are Trumps, but the editing is Bidens, PolitiFact noted, rating the claim false. Bidens campaign produced a video falsely accusing Trump of silencing a CDC official who warned the public about coronavirus. But that wasnt true at all, as The Washington Post noted in a fact-check. In the video, Biden campaign adviser Ron Klain claimed the Trump administration silenced career CDC official Nancy Messonnier. Klain claimed that Messonnier had been sidelined from briefing reporters after delivering a widely discussed warning about the viruss impact on Americans lives. But Klains framing of the Messonnier situation is simply wrong, the Posts fact-check noted, adding that Messonnier continued briefing reporters for weeks after the statement in question. The Post awarded four out of four Pinocchios to the Biden campaigns false claim. Biden falsely said Tuesday on The View that he hasnt criticized Trump on coronavirus. Ive not been criticizing the president, but Ive been pointing out where theres disagreement as to how to proceed, Biden asserted. The coronavirus is not his fault, but the lack of speed and alacrity with which to respond to it has to move much faster. Biden was sharply critical of Trump before his appearance on The View, and hes continued launching criticism after the interview. Donald Trump is wholly unfit to lead this nation and that has become even clearer in the last few weeks, Biden wrote in a tweet Tuesday afternoon. Bidens campaign didnt return a request for comment for this article.
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