“Look, there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan. They have said that this has all the characteristics — four, five former heads of the CIA, both parties, say what he’s saying is a bunch of garbage. Nobody believes it except him and his good friend Rudy Giuliani.”
Joe Biden
Democratic presidential nominee. in the final presidential debate. Claim dated 22 Oct 2020.
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Joe Biden (Democratic presidential nominee) made this claim around 22 October 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 February 2023, 844 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.
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