“During the Obama/Biden administration “18,000 people got clemency.”
Joe Biden
former Vice President. Claim dated 5 Oct 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Obama issued 1,927 pardons and commutations during his two terms.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (former Vice President) made this claim around 5 October 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 October 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
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