“(Donald) Trump ran up more debt than any other president in American history.”
What PolitiFact found
Former President Barack Obama accumulated more debt on his watch than Trump did, though on a per-year basis, Trump oversaw a debt rate increase that was higher than Obama’s.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Hakeem Jeffries (House Democratic Leader) made this claim around 12 May 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 22 May 2023, 10 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Hakeem Jeffries has 9 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 5 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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