“Former President Donald Trump “started out with $400 million on a silver platter and then filed for bankruptcy six times.”
What PolitiFact found
Donald Trump received the present-day equivalent of $413 million from his father or his father’s estate over the course of his lifetime, but only a fraction was available to him when he "started out."
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In short
Kamala Harris (Vice President) made this claim around 12 September 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 September 2024, 8 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Kamala Harris has 63 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 13 of them false or fake, 40 misleading or mixed and 7 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/09/12/remarks-by-vice-pres…
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