evidence: Democratic presidential candidates harshly criticized President Donald Trump for using the term "hoax" in connection with the coronavirus outbreak. There’s no question that the president described the disease as the Democrats’ "new hoax" at a political rally on Feb. 28 in South Carolina. [...] Even after Trump explained his remarks, some Democrats — including former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg — continued to wrongly accuse Trump of describing the coronavirus as a "hoax." [...] In the wake of the criticism, Trump said at a press conference on Feb. 29 that he used the term "hoax" to refer not to coronavirus itself but to Democrats’ criticism of how his administration had responded to it.