“Abraham Lincoln challenged a guy to a sword fight.”
Markwayne Mullin
U.S. Senator, R-Okla.. an interview with CNN. Claim dated 15 Nov 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
As a young lawyer and politician, Abraham Lincoln engaged in a duel involving swords. However, he was not the one to make the challenge; his rival did.
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In short
Markwayne Mullin (U.S. Senator, R-Okla.) made this claim around 15 November 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 November 2023, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Markwayne Mullin has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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