“Joe Biden supported the disastrous invasion of Iraq" while "Trump was right" on the war.”
What PolitiFact found
Biden voted for a 2002 resolution that paved the way for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. Biden later criticized Bush's strategy. Trump also supported the Iraq War early on before growing skeptical a year later.
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In short
J.D. Vance (Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator) made this claim around 17 July 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 18 July 2024, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- gopconvention2024.comhttps://gopconvention2024.com/
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