“I have no notion that the Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed. I’m sure innocents have been killed, and it’s the price of waging a war. … I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”
Joe Biden
U.S. president. remarks to reporters at the White House. Claim dated 25 Oct 2023.
Washington Post rated thisUninformed
What Washington Post found
Biden's remarks are remarkably uninformed by history and precedent
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In short
Joe Biden (U.S. president) made this claim around 25 October 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 1 November 2023, 7 days later. Its rating was “Uninformed”.
Joe Biden has 509 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 140 of them false or fake, 281 misleading or mixed and 34 true.
Where the claim appeared
- whitehouse.govhttps://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/10/25/remarks-by-president…
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