“A Joe Biden-Bernie Sanders “unity” policy document shows “they want to abolish our police departments. They want to abolish our prisons, I guess.”
What PolitiFact found
The document Trump cited does not say anything about abolishing the police or prisons. In fact, it includes several passages that clearly indicate that police and prisons will exist in the future.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (president) made this claim around 14 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 July 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-press-conference-…
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