“After Joe Biden became vice president, at the behest of his father, he gave his uncle, Frank H. Biden, a Purple Heart for serving in the U.S. military during World War II.”
What PolitiFact found
The event could not have happened as Biden described. Obituaries for the president’s uncle show he died in 1999, almost a decade before Biden became vice president.
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In short
Joe Biden (President of the U.S.) made this claim around 16 December 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 December 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/12/16/remarks-by-president…
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