“All the billionaires in America, their net worth combined … has increased by $800 billion” during the pandemic.”
Joe Biden
Presidential candidate. Speech. Claim dated 21 Sep 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
In short
Joe Biden (Presidential candidate) made this claim around 21 September 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 October 2020, 21 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
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.
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