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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump keeps wrongly describing what his Democratic opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, said about the idea of imposing a “shutdown” to combat the coronavirus.
In his Thursday speech accepting the Republican presidential nomination, Trump said, “Instead of following the science, Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country.” He said Biden’s supposed shutdown would cause health problems, like alcohol addiction and depression, and “economic devastation.”
In a rally speech the next night in New Hampshire, Trump said, “And now the other day, Joe Biden came up with a plan to impose a blanket shutdown.”
Trump had made a similar claim on Twitter on August 22, saying that, despite the large job gains of recent months (which came after much larger job losses), “Joe Biden said, ‘I would shut it down’, referring to our Country. He has no clue!”
Facts First: All of these claims are wrong.
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Carl Sagan
Article URL : https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/31/politics/fact-check-biden-shut-it-down-science-trump/index.html