“During the first presidential debate in 2016, the Commission on Presidential Debates "oscillated the mic and they oscillated it very, very seriously, and they actually apologized to me.”
What FactCheck.org found
There was a microphone malfunction, but there was no evidence that the debate commission acted deliberately and it did not apologize.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President of the United States) made this claim around 8 October 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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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