“A biodiesel plant in Crawfordsville, Iowa, closed, "partly due to the trade war but mostly due to the waivers that Trump secretly gave to the oil companies.”
Amy Klobuchar
Democratic senator from Minnesota. At a town hall event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Claim dated 3 Jan 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisLargely correct
In short
Amy Klobuchar (Democratic senator from Minnesota) made this claim around 3 January 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 January 2020, 20 days later. Its rating was “Largely correct”.
Amy Klobuchar has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 4 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?467822-1/senator-amy-klobuchar-holds-town-hall-cedar-rapids…
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