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Featured on Snopes today: Sorting out President Trump's litany of remarks about the coronavirus, Oprah Winfrey becomes the subject of a bizarre internet conspiracy theory, and more.
by Snopes Staff, March 17, 1999
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“People are dying that have never died before,” U.S. President Donald Trump supposedly said during a recent press briefing on the COVID-19 pandemic crisis.
Critics of the president say the unintelligible quote is proof of his incompetence.
The trouble is, Snopes reporter Bethania Palma writes, no evidence exists that he ever said it, and the quote itself is more than a decade old.
By Snopes Staff
March 18, 2020
A number of hoaxes have circulated amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
March 17, 2020
This quote has been circulating since at least 2004, but its provenance is still unknown.
March 18, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump claimed that he felt COVID-19 was a pandemic "long before it was cal ...
March 18, 2020
This rumor about Oprah Winfrey was a sliver of a much larger conspiracy theory spreading dangero ...
March 18, 2020
Scams involving the disaster relief organization are unfortunately not new.
March 17, 1999
It is not true that a special property of the equinox allows eggs (or brooms) to be balanced on ...
