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“Joe Biden caved to the radical environmentalists and stopped America’s Keystone pipeline and dramatically increased Americans’ dependence on Russian oil”
Voiceover Mike Pence’s political organization, Advancing American Freedom. in an ad aimed at congressional Democrats. Claim dated 7 Mar 2022.
Washington Post rated thisFour Pinocchios

What Washington Post found

U.S. purchases of Russian oil rose because of factors that predated Biden.

Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.

In short

Voiceover (Mike Pence’s political organization, Advancing American Freedom) made this claim around 7 March 2022. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 March 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.

Voiceover has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 7 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.

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