“Kamala Harris helped violent rioters in Minnesota get out of jail to do more damage.”
What Washington Post found
Cotton’s claim that “violent rioters” were released with MFF funds has some basis in fact. But we stumble over Cotton’s additional claim that violent rioters were let out of jail to do more damage.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Tom Cotton (Senator (R-Ark.)) made this claim around 30 August 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 September 2020, 4 days later. Its rating was “Needs context”.
Tom Cotton has 13 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 8 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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