Person: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

FactChecking Trump’s Attack on the WHO

April 15, 2020

In announcing that his administration would halt funding for the World Health Organization, President Donald Trump made a series of false, misleading and unsubstantiated claims about the WHO.

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