“Instead of having a counterterrorism capability to have small forces there in — or in the region to be able to take on al-Qaeda if it tried to reconstitute, we decided to engage in nation building. In nation building. That never made any sense to me.”
Joe Biden
President. in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News,. Claim dated 18 Aug 2021.
Washington Post rated thisTwo Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Biden's position has evolved in ways that he does not easily acknowledge
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In short
Joe Biden (President) made this claim around 18 August 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 23 August 2021, 5 days later. Its rating was “Two Pinocchios”.
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.
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- goodmorningamerica.comhttps://www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/full-transcript-abc-news-george-stephanopou…
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