“He was found by Barack Obama’s inspector general to be guilty of selling green cards to Chinese nationals on behalf of rich Democratic donors.”
What Washington Post found
The plain facts of the inspector general’s report about Mayorkas’s handling of these three EB-5 applications are striking enough that there is no need to hype it up further with words like “guilty” and “selling.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (Senator (R-Ark.)) made this claim around 25 November 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 December 2020, 16 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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