“I ended [Nord Stream 2]," a pipeline that sends gas from Russia to Germany. "Can you imagine? [President Joe] Biden came in and he opened up the pipeline.”
What FactCheck.org found
Construction of the pipeline was suspended in response to sanctions contained in legislation that Trump signed, but it started up again in December 2020, while Trump was still in office.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (Former U.S. president) made this claim around 3 September 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 September 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Donald Trump has 1,168 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 663 of them false or fake, 375 misleading or mixed and 13 true.
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