“Donald Trump himself wrote a book where he was talking about the need to increase the age of eligibility for Social Security to 70.”
Ron DeSantis
Florida governor. Claim dated 5 May 2023.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly True
What PolitiFact found
In a book he co-wrote in 2000, Donald Trump warned that the Social Security trust fund would run out in decades. Trump called for solutions, which included raising the retirement age to 70.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron DeSantis (Florida governor) made this claim around 5 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 May 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Ron DeSantis has 64 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 38 misleading or mixed and 2 true.
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