“I have never asked the president to resign. So what the book said was not true.”
Kevin McCarthy
House Republican Leader (Calif.). in a media briefing. Claim dated 22 Apr 2022.
Washington Post rated thisFalse
What Washington Post found
The book did not say that. It said he told Republicans he would ask Trump to resign.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Republican Leader (Calif.)) made this claim around 22 April 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 26 April 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kevin McCarthy has 34 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 20 of them false or fake, 9 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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