“Farm bankruptcies jumped 20% last year due largely to Trump’s unmitigated disaster of a tariff war.”
What FactCheck.org found
International trade was a factor, but there were additional reasons — such as years of relatively weak prices, declining incomes and rising farm debt, according to agricultural economists and government reports.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 20 May 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 June 2020, 13 days later. Its rating was “There Were Many Reasons”.
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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