“Joe Biden said “leaders of the free world” at a NATO reception were caught on a hot mic saying “they didn’t think [President Donald Trump] knew anything, they didn’t trust him.”
Joe Biden
Democratic candidate for president. CNN town hall. Claim dated 5 Feb 2020.
FactCheck.org rated thisFalse
In short
Joe Biden (Democratic candidate for president) made this claim around 5 February 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 7 February 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- transcripts.cnn.comhttp://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2002/05/se.01.html
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