“I’ve been talking about mail-in voting for a long time. It’s really destroyed our system. It’s a corrupt system and it makes people corrupt, even if they aren’t by nature, but they become corrupt.”
Donald Trump
President. in the White House briefing room. Claim dated 5 Nov 2020.
Washington Post rated thisFalse
What Washington Post found
A mountain of evidence shows that mail voting has been almost entirely free of fraud through the decades.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 5 November 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 6 November 2020, 1 day later. Its rating was “False”.
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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