"Fact-checking whether Biden called Trump ‘xenophobic’ for restrictions on travel from China"Miriam Valverde for PolitiFact; March 27, 2020.
https://www.politifact.com/...led-trump-xenophobi/How PolitiFact summarized this "Fact-check" of March 27, 2020.
| quote | Biden has not directly said that the restrictions were xenophobic.
Around the time the Trump administration announced the travel restriction, Biden said that Trump had a “record of hysteria, xenophobia, and fear-mongering.”
Biden used the phrase “xenophobic” in reply to a Trump tweet about limiting entry to travelers from China and in which Trump described the coronavirus as the “Chinese virus.” Biden did not spell out which part of Trump’s tweet was xenophobic. |
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