Fact check: Republicans are lying about past Biden comments on Trump travel restrictions

[AZProgressive]

Congressional Republicans are dishonestly attacking President Joe Biden's effort to slow the spread of the omicron coronavirus variant, reviving debunked accusations from the 2020 campaign. They are still false.

On Friday, Biden signed a temporary suspension of some travel from southern African nations where the new omicron variant has been most prevalent. The emergency action, he wrote, was an effort to move "swiftly and aggressively to prevent further spread of the disease."

But Republican lawmakers who cheered a similar travel restriction on some visitors from China implemented by then-President Donald Trump in early 2020 have attacked Biden's efforts. Trump boasted — without evidence — that his orders saved 2 million lives.

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But independent fact-checkers debunked these statements, noting that Biden had warned in late January 2020 that it was "no time for Donald Trump's record of hysteria, xenophobia — hysterical xenophobia — and fear-mongering to lead the way instead of science" and criticized Trump's racist use of the term "Chinese virus," but had never attacked the travel restrictions.

https://americanindependent.com/fact-check-republicans-lie-joe-biden-comments-omicron-travel-restrictions-muslim-ban-racist/

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That doesn't happen very often.