“If you got the briefing I got from the FBI, you wouldn’t have [Eric] Swalwell on any committee. … Adam Schiff openly lied to the American public. He told you he had proof. He told you he didn’t know the whistleblower.”
Kevin McCarthy
House Speaker (R-Calif.). in remarks to reporters. Claim dated 12 Jan 2023.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
McCarthy offers no evidence for his claims.
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In short
Kevin McCarthy (House Speaker (R-Calif.)) made this claim around 12 January 2023. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 January 2023, 6 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- YouTube videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akNY5ofxbN8
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