“Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”
Donald Trump
former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee. Claim dated 24 Jul 2024.
PolitiFact rated thisMostly False
What PolitiFact found
In 2020, then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., called for "reimagining" public safety. But she didn’t explicitly call for shuttering police departments.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Donald Trump (former president and 2024 Republican presidential nominee) made this claim around 24 July 2024. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 30 July 2024, 6 days later. Its rating was “Mostly 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.
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