“Joe Biden as vice president didn't "have the right to declassify" documents.”
What PolitiFact found
An executive order signed by former President Barack Obama authorizes the vice president to classify and declassify documents.
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In short
Donald Trump (Former president of the United States) made this claim around 10 January 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 January 2023, 17 days 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.
Where the claim appeared
- justthenews.comhttps://justthenews.com/video/just-news-no-noise-john-solomon-and-amanda-head-january-10-…
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