Wall Street Journal fact checks false claims Mike Pence made in op-ed published in the paper days be [View all]

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https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/wall-street-journal-fact-checks-false-claims-mike-pence-made-in-op-ed-published-in-the-paper-days-before/

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This Tuesday, Vice President Mike Pence penned an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal where he claimed that alarm bells about a “second wave” of coronavirus are “overblown” that the Trump administration is “winning the fight” against the ongoing health crisis. But this Friday, the Journal ran a fact check on the very op-ed that itself published, saying that Pence “overstated the amount of coronavirus-related medical equipment distributed by a Trump administration program on multiple occasions, according to public data from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.”

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“The total number of those supplies is about 7%—or one-thirteenth—of the numbers cited in Mr. Pence’s article.”