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“California firefighters decided "to speak out" against President Trump because his tweet about the state’s wildfires "contained so much misinformation.”
Joe Biden Democratic presidential candidate. Claim dated 12 Dec 2019.
PolitiFact rated thisTrue

In short

Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 12 December 2019. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 December 2019, 6 days later. Its rating was “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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