“If you wanted to kill a bunch of MAGA voters in the middle of the heartland, how better than to target them and their kids with this deadly fentanyl? … It does look intentional.”
J.D. Vance
Ohio Senate candidate (R). in an interview with Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit. Claim dated 29 Apr 2022.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
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In short
J.D. Vance (Ohio Senate candidate (R)) made this claim around 29 April 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 11 May 2022, 12 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- thegatewaypundit.comhttps://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/live-stream-video-j-d-vance-joins-gateway-pundit…
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