Fact Check: Joe Biden Repeats False ‘Bleach in Your Arm’ Claim
2020 Election,Joe Biden,Facts And Fact Checking
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CLAIM: Joe Biden told an ABC News town hall that President Donald Trump told people to put “bleach in your arm.”
VERDICT: FALSE. Trump spoke about experimental UV light technologies. Biden keeps repeating the same false claim.
The former vice president told an ABC News town hall on Thursday evening that the president told people to put “bleach in your arm” and therefore should not be trusted to pronounce whether a potential coronavirus vaccine was safe or not.
As Breitbart News has noted in previous fact checks:
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