“Clearly, the Obama administration did not leave any kind of game plan for something like this.”
Mitch McConnell
Senate majority leader. Team Trump video chat. Claim dated 11 May 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisPants on Fire
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In short
Mitch McConnell (Senate majority leader) made this claim around 11 May 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 May 2020, 3 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Mitch McConnell has 10 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 4 of them false or fake, 2 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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