“I never mentioned” wanting to end the Affordable Care Act.”
What PolitiFact found
It's wrong to say he’s never "mentioned" wanting to scuttle the law. He did so in 2016 as a candidate, and as president, Trump sought to end the law through congressional action and at the U.S. Supreme Court.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president) made this claim around 31 October 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 2 November 2024, 2 days later. Its rating was “Pants on Fire”.
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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