“I would not have withdrawn the additional thousand troops who are in Iraq, which are in retreat now, being fired on by Assad’s people.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential candidate. debate. Claim dated 15 Oct 2019.
FactCheck.org rated thisWrong
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic presidential candidate) made this claim around 15 October 2019. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 16 October 2019, 1 day later. Its rating was “Wrong”.
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
- washingtonpost.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/15/october-democratic-debate-transcript/
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