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Trump Falsely Claims He Hasn’t Left the White House in ‘Months’ at Coronavirus Briefing

The president held campaign rallies in February and one last month.

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By Emma Tucker

President Trump claimed during a coronavirus press briefing on Monday that he hasn’t left the White House in “months,” even though he held a campaign rally in March. When Yamiche Alcindor, a White House correspondent for PBS, told the president that he held rallies in February and one in March, he responded, “Did I hold a rally? I’m sorry... Let me tell you, in January, when I did this, we had virtually no cases and no deaths.” Trump’s remarks came after he boasted about his travel restrictions on China, saying that “people would say I acted very early.”

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