“Congo, Africa, just released a lot of people, a lot of people from their prisons and jails and brought them into the United States of America.”
What PolitiFact found
U.S. border officials have encountered migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo more than 2,000 times under Biden. But experts on prisons or Congo said that they had no evidence to back up Trump’s statement.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president of the United States) made this claim around 31 May 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 June 2024, 13 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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