“As Ohio treasurer, Josh Mandel loaned your money to Chinese business interests, and Mandel opposed a bill holding Communist China accountable when they cheated and stole American jobs.”
What PolitiFact found
Mandel was the administrator of a state fund that invested public money in multinational corporations such as U.S.-based Exxon and Apple. The companies do business in China, but are not based there.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Mike Gibbons (2022 candidate for GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Ohio) made this claim around 7 April 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 25 April 2022, 18 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Mike Gibbons has 5 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 4 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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