evidence: In welcoming viewers to the second night of the convention, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett said of the Democrats, "Unlike the president, we’ve never called COVID-19 a hoax." As FactCheck.org has written, it is true that Trump said the novel coronavirus was the Democrats’ "new hoax." But the president has said he was talking about the Democrats’ criticism of how he had handled the pandemic, not the disease itself. [...] 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 the coronavirus itself but to Democrats’ criticism of how his administration had responded to it. [...] Gregorian, Dareh. "Democratic candidates hit Trump’s coronavirus ‘hoax’ claim." MSNBC. 29 Feb 2020.