Trump swings and misses again on voter fraud President Trump claims there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election (which he won), and he often says with no evidence to support him that millions of people are voting twice or casting fraudulent mail-in ballots or rigging the polls or enlisting undocumented immigrants to vote for Democrats or ... well, you get the idea. His latest attempt to sow distrust in U.S. elections involves the state of California. "A million people should not have voted, where they were 115 years old and lots of things, and people were voting in their place," Trump said at a news conference this week, referring to a legal settlement between Los Angeles County, the state of California and the conservative group Judicial Watch. But the president got it completely wrong. The lawsuit had nothing to do with people who had voted — but with people who had not voted. Judicial Watch in 2017 sued the state and Los Angeles County to meet requirements under the National Voter Registration Act and clean up its voter registration files. The group said that the state had not done so for at least two decades and that there were more than 1.5 million registrations on the county's file of inactive registered voters. The text of settlement did not say there was fraudulent voting or any type of voter fraud. There was no admission of wrongdoing. It simply set up a process for notices to be sent to people found to be inactive; their names would be removed if they did not vote in the next two federal general elections. We gave Four Pinocchios to Trump, who, by the way, mails in his ballot when he votes. For the full fact check, click here. Enjoy this newsletter? Forward it to someone else who'd like it! If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here. Did you hear something fact-checkable? Send it here; we'll check it out. And a false claim about China ...In Trump's telling, he took bold action to ban many foreign travelers from China to stop the spread of covid-19. He claimed the United States instituted its ban before every other country. "When I did China, it had never been done before," Trump said. "I was the first one to do it." Not quite. The World Health Organization has cautioned against such travel restrictions, saying they are ineffective against a virus and in the long run counterproductive. Trump, according to news reports, was initially skeptical and worried about provoking China after signing a major trade deal. But his national security and public health experts convinced him that the move would buy time to put in place effective prevention and testing measures. Six countries imposed travel restrictions even before the World Health Organization declared a global health emergency on Jan. 30. Another six announced travel restrictions that same day, followed by 11 countries (besides the United States) announcing restrictions Jan. 31. But most countries imposed the restrictions immediately. By the time Trump's restrictions took effect Feb. 2, an additional 15 countries had taken similar actions — and in some cases enacted even tougher bans. But in any case, that adds up to 38 countries taking action before or at the same time the U.S. restrictions were put in place. Among members of the powerful Group of 20, Trump has more of a point — the United States was third, after Italy and Australia. Trump received Three Pinocchios. For the full fact check, click here. Sign up for The Post's Coronavirus Updates newsletter to track the outbreak. All stories linked within the newsletter are free to access. We're always looking for fact-check suggestions. You can reach us via email, Twitter (@GlennKesslerWP, @rizzoTK, @mmkelly22, @SarahCahlan) or Facebook. Read about our process and rating scale here, and sign up for the newsletter here. Scroll down for this week's Pinocchio roundup. | 
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