“Government officials “could have come and taken” classified documents stored at Donald Trump’s private club and residence in Florida “any time they wanted.”
Rep. Kevin McCarthy
House Speaker. Fox News. Claim dated 15 Jan 2023.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
What FactCheck.org found
FBI agents visited Mar-a-Lago on June 3, 2022, but a Trump lawyer refused to allow them to review — let alone take — dozens of boxes from the Trump White House that were being kept in a storage area.
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In short
Rep. Kevin McCarthy (House Speaker) made this claim around 15 January 2023. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 January 2023, 3 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTGhQ7K9xZk&t=46s
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