Sen. Sherrod Brown Repeats the False Claim That President Trump Said the Coronavirus Is a Hoax

BROWN: "Well, go back a few days when — I mean, Governor DeWine, a Republican, someone who I’ve watched him and talked to him frequently during all of this with the coronavirus. He has been as good or better than any governor in the country, anticipating. He shut the schools down when there were only three, I think there were only three people diagnosed at that point. He understood. I mean, he was looking at this and dealing with this for weeks when Trump was still saying that it was a hoax put out by MSNBC and the media or the Democrats or whatever."